Luxury Item Quotes

#1. Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.

Ha-Joon Chang

#2. Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

Rob Conway

#3. Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would we bother with taxis? I contend that even if you need a taxi once a year - there are times when you need a taxi.

Simi Linton

#4. Honor was a luxury item, like hair pomade and snuff. Its only purpose was to show the world that you could afford to be impractical, that you had enough money to behave in a way that was compatible with some ludicrous code instead of acting out of self-preservation like the rest of humanity.

Cat Sebastian

#5. The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.

Mark Kurlansky

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

Nate Silver

#7. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#8. I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

DJ Quik

#9. Each of us has the ability to dream

Sunday Adelaja

#10. After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

Bob Casey Jr.

#11. Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Ingmar Bergman

#12. I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

Anna Kournikova

#13. I have an investment in the signifying aspects of the material as well as an understanding of antecedent bodies of work. That informs the way I make marks and make decisions.

Rashid Johnson

#14. My ideal is that we all be economically interdependent. We should not be independent like millionaires, nor dependent like laborers. My ideal is that we all be interdependent.

Rose Pastor Stokes

#15. I know at least two people who have never been killed by hippos.

Bill Engvall

#16. What I didn't realize was that I didn't have to be normal--I just had to be me, my father's child, carrying out God's plan.

Nick Vujicic

#17. She had no idea how much I wanted to make her my wife, no clue as to how many nights I fell asleep with that image on my mind.

Ashlan Thomas

#18. Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

Roger Maris

#19. I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

Lev Grossman

#20. There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.

John Hyams

#21. I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

Simon Armitage

#22. The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

Aristotle.

#23. When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced big limits in what we could learn, where we could be and who we could reach.

Vivek Wadhwa