Luxury Quotes

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and which allows itself the luxury of not respecting the law and of defying the international community.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.