Quotes About Luxury Goods

#1. Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

Paige Bradley

#2. I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.

Larry Gagosian

#3. Perhaps we will end up one of those sad childless couples who spend all their time sleeping late, buying luxury goods, traveling the world, and enjoying each other's company. That would be terrible.

Michael Ian Black

#4. I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

David Chipperfield

#5. Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

Ai Weiwei

#6. Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

Bernard Arnault

#7. Not to belabor the point, but counterfeit luxury goods truly represent a false economy.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.

Ludwig Von Mises

#9. I want to spread the message in the U.S. that there are good philanthropists in China, and not all are crazy spenders on luxury goods.

Chen Guangbiao

#10. Literature has always carried positive connotations in the world of luxury goods.

Michel Houellebecq

#11. All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Ai Weiwei

#12. Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

Tyne O'Connell

#13. The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Diego Della Valle

#14. Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

Ellen Page

#15. With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.

James Hogg

#16. God wants us to call unto Him in prayer because his ear is not deaf to hear our cry.

Euginia Herlihy

#17. In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

Beau Willimon

#18. It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least talented person behind the wheel that she had ever taught.

Jane Smiley

#19. My Pocahontas-meets-seventies-Cher-style shirt. Oh, how I loved that shirt

Jenny Han

#20. It wore him down, knowing how small he was ...
how insignificant he was to the things in the shadows ...
it wore him down until there was so little left in him ...
that he almost forgot who he really was.

Ed Brubaker

#21. Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

Jacqueline Carey

#22. Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it ... This really may be redefining education.

Kevin Harvey

#23. People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,
surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

Alice James

#25. The '80s was a wild decade, and I had some fantastic times. And I did some really fun work.

Christian Slater

#26. America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other
achievements amount to nothing.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#27. Imperialism and exploitation," he wrote, "spheres of influence, trade barriers, unequal distribution of the world's goods, starvation in the midst of plenty, slums with gold coasts next door, poverty supporting luxury: These are marks of an unChristian world.

Sara Miles

#28. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

L.E. Horn