Top 100 Expensive Quotes
#1. My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.
Jimmy Buffett
#2. The fact that picking out china patterns was pretty gay didn't bother me, since we were picking them out to shoot them. Frank chose the design. Ivory white with solid black borders and real gold edging. Fucking expensive. He made me pay.
Nicole Castle
#3. Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.
Oscar Wilde
#4. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Jose Mujica
#5. Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
Bill Bryson
#6. The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.
Phil Gramm
#7. Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.
Nicholas Rodger
#8. I stopped wearing expensive clothes, I kicked my addiction to six newspapers a day,
Robin S. Sharma
#9. Adron always had a thing for expensive ho's with the intelligence of backwash. You look like you actually have both a brain and a soul. (Zarina)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!
Mary Gordon
#11. I know reels can be expensive but even if you construct one on your own if you don't have enough money to get a more professional one while you're getting started, as far as college animators go or young indie developers I don't think they are going to care if you have the highest quality reel yet.
Ashly Burch
#12. In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
Peter Temple
#13. Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
#14. If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?
Katha Pollitt
#15. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
Vann Chow
#16. I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
John Caudwell
#17. The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.
Ben Folds
#18. 500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.
Steve Ballmer
#19. I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
Christina Applegate
#20. Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.
Mireille Guiliano
#21. We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.
Bruce Brown
#22. That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it.
Cindy Margolis
#23. I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.
Wally Pipp
#24. It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.
P. J. O'Rourke
#27. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar
Kurt Vonnegut
#28. If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.
Millard Drexler
#29. Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.
Rohit Shetty
#30. Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.
Lisa Randall
#31. I think rock records tend to be very expensive.
Andy Summers
#33. It's an expensive place. The cheapest salad is twenty-five dollars."
"I hope that comes with extra croutons and a hand job.
Andrea Speed
#34. As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I'm like, 'Oops! This is an expensive mistake!'
Lindsey Stirling
#35. We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do.
Harlan Coben
#36. It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
Peter Diamandis
#39. I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
Kate McKinnon
#40. Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
Larry Niven
#41. It would be a divine injustice to allow only those people who were learned and who had the time and money to buy expensive books to have access to true knowledge.
Paulo Coelho
#42. It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.
Caroline Wozniacki
#43. Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then, it's expensive to break up when you live in one property.
Deborah Moggach
#44. If Europe's example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don't drive them too much.
Paul Krugman
#45. If you had to buy a new plane every time you flew somewhere, it would be incredibly expensive.
Elon Musk
#46. You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
Adam Mansbach
#47. Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.
Jimmy Page
#48. The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.
William Friedkin
#49. Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination ...
Arthur Frommer
#50. Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. JOHN 12:3
Anne Graham Lotz
#51. Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
Jean Racine
#52. It was hard to see where he was going, and he was careful not to damage the camera, so expensive that his father made him name it (Carl), so he would treat it more carefully.
Kevin Wilson
#53. Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business.
Bernie Sanders
#54. I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
John Legend
#55. I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.
Reif Larsen
#56. Some people believe linking to Wikipedia is bad practice, but I disagree. I'd rather link directly to a topic that is continuously being improved than referring to part of a dead tree that is hard to obtain because it is either expensive or out of stock.
Jurgen Appelo
#57. When demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.
Samuel Alexander
#58. Hexapodia as the key insight ... I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
Vernor Vinge
#59. The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes
#60. Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.
Linda Greenlaw
#61. For some reason I've always had an irrational love for New York. There's no reason that you would necessarily like it on paper. It's very expensive.
Woody Allen
#62. But not having cable or the Internet turns out to be cheaper than having them. And nature is still technically free, even if human beings have tried to make access to it expensive. Time and quiet should not be luxury items.
Timothy Ferriss
#63. People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.
Atul Gawande
#64. prefer married women and expensive whores. You have a nice meal, a few laughs, a good fuck, and then you each go back to your own lives. It's better that way." So
Don Winslow
#65. Anything that costs you your integrity is too expensive.
Jeffrey Fry
#66. I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.
Neel Mukherjee
#67. Time and talents are the most expensive gifts God gave to us at no cost. However, they are the main things that are easily abused. To abuse something time and talents is to take them for granted and not appreciate their values.
Israelmore Ayivor
#68. Studies have found that preparing your own food is usually healthier and less expensive than buying fast food. But most people just don't have the time.
Eric Schlosser
#69. Parking's expensive, so I walk or ride my bike, which is good because my girlfriend's getting her PhD as an environmental engineer.
Chaz Bundick
#72. Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
Kate Winslet
#73. We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.
Frances Beinecke
#74. I trust that McDonald's can find a way to sell all-natural chicken without raising their prices; we did that at Shake Shack. It is more expensive, and we took a slight margin hit, but we did it. And if we can do it, I know that much bigger companies can.
Danny Meyer
#75. Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
Jimmy Buffett
#76. I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.
Francis Ford Coppola
#77. Slim young women were swathed in chic black dresses, here to attend a ceremony in one of the hotel's many reception rooms. They wore small but expensive accessories, like vampire finches in search of blood, longing for a hint of light they could reflect.
Haruki Murakami
#78. I enjoy theater just for the sheer excitement of it and the immediate response that you get, and how every night the audience is a little bit different; but then, it's expensive to work in N.Y., and stage work is limited, so you're just doing it for the art.
Dorian Missick
#79. One of his hands finds its way through the expensive implanted follicles of hair that line his forehead.
Colleen Hoover
#80. If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.
Brian Foote
#81. The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time
Stephanie Barron
#82. Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#83. How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
#84. The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.
Red Adair
#85. We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
Malcolm Turnbull
#86. Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#87. Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.
Nigel Lawson
#88. When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.
Ron Wyden
#89. I've always been against recreating or re-recording samples, but I managed to re-record one or two that were just too expensive and it was just ridiculous.
Jens Lekman
#90. The problem is that games and porn are entertaining, inexpensive, easily accessible, and reliable. Women can be entertaining, but they're expensive, inaccessible for most men, and from the male perspective, shockingly unreliable.
Helen Smith
#91. Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.
Jeff Smith
#92. Growing old is God's privilege to you ... you only can be compared to any antique and old wine ... antiques are expensive and old wines taste best ... above all, it beats the alternative
DYING YOUNG. So cheer up and be grateful that God is giving you that privilege.
Peekey
#93. I went into designing my house thinking I could have some more expensive items because I didn't realize my kids were going to be animals.
Nicole Polizzi
#94. I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.
John Lydon
#95. Books were expensive, as well. But she'd read enough of them to know that they were only as valuable as the contents of their writers' minds - and to her it seemed that a great many writers, had they been merchants, would have precious little inventory.
Jim Butcher
#96. If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.
Aaron Neville
#97. I wont cry for you, my mascara's too expensive...
Adriana Lima
#98. When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.
Megan Whalen Turner
#99. I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.
Taylor Swift
#100. I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.
Conrad Burns
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