Top 79 Quotes About Expensive Things

#1. 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

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#2. 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

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#3. The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

Stephanie Barron

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#4. I think the idea is when you're on your death bed to say you did a lot of different, interesting things, not just that you have a more expensive lining in your coffin.

Matt Frewer

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#5. A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

Helen Fisher

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#6. I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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#7. We don't really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor's, and they're going on vacation that's slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.

Dan Ariely

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#8. Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that gets them votes, which is what it is all about, as far as they are concerned.

Thomas Sowell

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#9. We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.

Graham Nash

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#10. I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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#11. I'm somebody who doesn't work with a stylist. I'll be honest with you, I'm a mom and it's just not something I want to put money toward because it's expensive to have somebody who helps dress you and I feel like I have to pay for preschool and so many things ... so I don't have a stylist.

Busy Philipps

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#12. You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

Moby

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#13. There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

Ralph Merkle

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#14. Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

Alexander McQueen

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#15. Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!

Zig Ziglar

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#16. Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there's always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.

Kanye West

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#17. Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.

Stacy London

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#18. I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think that's what creates a demand and keeps an economy moving.

Pat Toomey

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#19. I think there is status to having a house full of pretty things, to buying expensive paintings of seashells from her arty friends and spoons from Tiffany's.

E. Lockhart

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#20. Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

Donatella Versace

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#21. By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Kelly Wearstler

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#22. Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection.

Nina Garcia

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#23. I have so many things that I want to do, and I don't have enough time in my life to do them all. The problem with acting business is that it's so expensive and you've got to get so many people to say yes.

Frank Spotnitz

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#24. One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

Edwin Lefevre

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#25. I don't like expensive things ... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

Tyra Banks

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#26. I'm not attracted to expensive things.

Roger McGuinn

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#27. Like a busy government which only passes expensive laws prohibiting some new and interesting thing when people have actually found a way of doing it, the universe relied a great deal on things not being tried at all.

Terry Pratchett

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#28. It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

George Wald

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#29. Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?

Alain De Botton

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#30. Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Amber Valletta

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#31. Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and 'toys.

David R. Wommack

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#32. There's a lot of things that I've done to stick into the box set. You never have it this good. I think people should bargain. They shouldn't just buy the set, it's a little expensive [anyway]. But they should say - I'll give them dialogue, I'm a good writer.

Mel Brooks

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#33. The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.

Colm Meaney

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#34. I like to buy expensive things. If I wear something that costs more than a month's salary, I amply feel that the rotting carcass of me is at least shrouded nicely.

Tarryn Fisher

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#35. Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we've chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

Gabriel Zaid

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#36. I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.

Wendy O. Williams

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#37. There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man."
"Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering things," Clary said.
"It could be worse," Luke said. "Men my age have been known to purchase expensive sports cars and sleep with supermodels.

Cassandra Clare

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#38. When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

Nate Berkus

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#39. When I was a kid, I learned the hard way how expensive the truth was. Sometimes it cost you people in your life. Sometimes it cost you things in your life. And in this life, most people were too cheap to pay the price for something as valuable as honesty.

Mariana Zapata

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#40. In the past, I thought I should put serious effort into being less materially attached, to train myself to like expensive things less. Now it was happening organically and almost violently, with full conviction.

Charlotte Shane

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#41. I don't go crazy buying expensive technology. I'd probably say my laptops and TVs are the most expensive things I've bought.

Joel David Moore

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#42. When things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

Ken Follett

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#43. One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.

Ellen Stofan

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#44. I have a nice office. I have a nice house ... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

Bill Gates

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#45. I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

Caroline Wozniacki

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#46. The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

Coco Chanel

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#47. I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

James Brown

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#48. But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Fareed Zakaria

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#49. Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.

M.J. Rose

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#50. To wear every day, not big things that are only for dress." Another pause. "Yes, they were very expensive, but expensive doesn't make them right. I buy costume jewelry that I love, and I wear it all the time, because

Barbara Delinsky

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#51. Sleeping with your child, wearing your child in a sling as opposed to pushing them around in expensive strollers, those are things that matter biologically and sociologically for the structure of a family.

Mayim Bialik

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#52. I'm just a normal person. It's not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

Anna Netrebko

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#53. One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

John Lasseter

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#54. Peace and satisfaction are the two most expensive things in life. You can never buy them, you can only generate them for yourself, and those around you.

Mehek Bassi

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#55. This was in a country where everybody was expected to pay his own bills for everything, and one of the most expensive things a person could do was get sick.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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#56. Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and realise that there must be more to life than working 9 to 5, buying and accumulating expensive 'things'and being attractive to members of the opposite sex.

Tim Crawshaw

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#57. If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?

Stephen Colbert

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#58. Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

Andree Putman

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#59. It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

Anna Nicole Smith

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#60. It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Clay Shirky

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#61. Those things please more, which are more expensive.

Juvenal

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#62. We don't need anything. Just listen to us and try to understand. Society is good at doing things, 'giving' medical help, pensions, flats. But all this so-called giving has been paid for in very expensive currency. Our blood.

Svetlana Alexievich

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#63. I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.

Mark Lester

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#64. I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

Michael Gambon

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#65. We spend enormous amounts of time and money on fad diets, expensive exercise machines, and health clubs. For many people, these things only demonstrate their preoccupation with the physical side of life ... but even more important is taking care of our souls.

Billy Graham

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#66. I totally don't believe that things have to be expensive for beauty. In fact, I'm always a little bit wary if they are ... because I'm like, 'What kind of chemicals are in there? What's going to happen in ten years, when we find out what the side effects are?'

Liz Goldwyn

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#67. Many worry about their outer appearance much more then their inner bearing. It's nice to have great and expensive things such as cars and houses but even better to know the greater principles in life to help maintain and keep them.

Timothy Pina

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#68. I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Bai Ling

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#69. Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler.

Colin Angle

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#70. He always appreciated expensive things, as if consuming them would make him valuable.

Jennifer Clement

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#71. Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra" - in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#72. Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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#73. Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.

Don Hertzfeldt

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#74. Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

Rory Sutherland

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#75. Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

Fran Lebowitz

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#76. When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#77. One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

Steve Case

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#78. Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

Oscar De La Renta

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#79. Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

Ang Lee

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