Luxury Quotes

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

Athletics is a luxury.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.