Luxury Quotes - Page 11

• People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

  Jean Plaidy

  People, Giving, Comfort

  Jean Plaidy (2010). “The Complete Tudors: Nine Historical Novels”, p.290, Broadway Books

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• People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don't, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth's greatest luxuries.

  Andrew Tobias

  Inspiration, People, Giving

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• Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.

  Edward Yourdon

  Home, Eccentric, Computer

  Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall

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• Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.

  George C. Scott

  Acting, Hollywood, Actors

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• What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

  Justin Broadrick

  Technology, Thinking, Done

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Frances Stark

  Art, Responsibility, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Sports, Men, Intellectual

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• I love my job, simply because we can keep things fresh, all the time. That's a luxury not all shows have. For us, as actors, it keeps us interested in our jobs and it keeps us coming back to work, every day. A new setting is amazing 'cause it's new for the team and it's new for our characters.

  Aldis Hodge

  Jobs, Team, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm just auditioning. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things.

  Madeline Zima

  Two, Able, Three

  Source: collider.com

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• The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Class, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Timequake”, p.74, Random House

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• I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

  Paul McCartney

  Able, Mediums, Ultimate

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• The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

  John Calvin

  Evil, Ease, Might

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• I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

  Jill Scott

  Waiting, Musician, Actors

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• Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

  Diane Ackerman

  Block, People, Deadline

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• Delhi is excellent. Everything looks so beautiful. In Bombay, we don't have such beautiful roads, spacious places, and you cannot have the luxury of having houses and bungalows. You have to live in little pokey flats and cost of living is extremely high in Mumbai. Delhi has a lot that people keep preserving... a lot of which is what Delhi is about.

  Bipasha Basu

  Beautiful, Cost Of Living, People

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• There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

  Robert Plant

  Goes On, Wealth, Fame

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• The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.

  Michael Caine

  Hate, Car, Mind

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again.

  Albert Camus

  Running, Cutting, Giving

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and its fruit. Stacks of thick books on art and design and a collection of glass paperweights filled the coffee table. It was enormously beautiful, a sensibility I'd never encountered anywhere, a relaxed luxury. I could feel my mother's contemptuous gaze falling on the cluttered surfaces, but I was tired of three white flowers in a glass vase. There was more to life than that.

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Mother, Art

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• You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

  Ralph Nader

  Adversity, Thinking, Despair

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• They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re on a battleground, you don’t have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing’s broken, nothing’s wrong.

  Jennifer Weiner

  War, Book, Broken

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Giving Up, Easy, Difficult

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• If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")

  Audre Lorde

  Dream, Giving Up, Moving

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.39, Crossing Press

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• But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Purple, Palaces

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.242, 谷月社

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• You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty." "If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?" "Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.

  Libba Bray

  Father, Greatness, Suffering

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