Luxury Quotes - Page 38

Men have still not realized that letting women do so much of the work for so little reward makes a man in the house an expensive luxury rather than a necessity.

The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science; but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.

If there's a cutaway, you need to get it then because it's only going to last [a few moments]. You have to edit the movie as you're shooting it in your head and communicate with your crew about how it's going to work. While making a movie, you have the luxury of storyboards and a script and a bigger crew and actors. I mean, it's so much easier.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

I don't have the luxury of time to be unhappy. I have too much to do. I have too much do accomplish. Who has the time to be unhappy?

in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.