Luxury Quotes - Page 24

• Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

  Brit Hume

  Stars, Air, Cnn

  "PBS NewsHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

  Ma Jian

  London, Cruise

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

  Ezra Koenig

  Artist, Issues, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Country, Winter, Hands

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• I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

  David E. Kelley

  Nice, Thinking, Law

  "Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelley". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 8, 2012.

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• I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

  Robert Kagan

  Military, Believe, Thinking

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• I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Nice, Poor, Lauren

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

  Jean Nouvel

  Hate, Sight, Modern

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• As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

  Vincent Piazza

  Opportunity, Actors, Tvs

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• I'm a theater actress. I love rehearsal. I could have six weeks of rehearsal and think it's not enough. But on film, you don't get that luxury.

  Kelly Reilly

  Thinking, Rehearsal, Actresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That’s what I’ve always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.

  Hedi Slimane

  Fashion, Design, Creative

  "Hedi Slimane Responsible For Skinny Jeans" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2011.

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• As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Writing, Liberty, Artistic

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• It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.

  Alfred Marshall

  Character, Class, Want

  Alfred Marshall (1997). “Principles of Economics”

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• I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

  Anthony Mackie

  Forever, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

  Matthew Perry

  Smart, People, Feelings

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• [Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

  Glenn Beck

  Political, Want, Stuff

  "Glenn Beck's New Hero Is... Tyler Perry?". April 9, 2010.

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• Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

  Tom Clancy

  Loneliness, Privacy, Skipper

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2420, Penguin

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• Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

  Gabriel Vahanian

  World, Existentialism, Christianity

  Gabriel Vahanian (2009). “The Death of God: The Culture of Our Post-Christian Era”, p.227, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Feminine Beauty, Brands, International

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• I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

  Pierre Dukan

  Paris, Wife, House

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• On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

  Lukas Haas

  Film, Lows, Budgets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

  W. H. Auden

  Soul, Hull, East

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

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, People, Problem

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• Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Sports, Believe, America

  Ronald J. Sider (1977). “Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study”, IVP Books

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• We are developing new types of destitutes-the automobileless, the yachtless, the Newportcottageless. The subtlest luxuries of today reaches very high in the social scale... The end of it all is vexation of spirit.

  Walter Weyl

  Today, Vexation, Spirit

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