Top 100 The Luxury Quotes
#1. But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that
Clifford D. Simak
#2. I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.
Olga Kurylenko
#3. I'm just auditioning. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things.
Madeline Zima
#4. Greatness of soul is available to people who do not have the luxury of being ecstatic about the condition and appearance of their bodies.
John Ortberg
#5. We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
Bill Nelson
#6. Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.
Trent Reznor
#7. How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#8. Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because there is no luxury that dazzles like the luxury of science.
Luisa Capetillo
#9. Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
Ken Auletta
#10. A-ha, but don't you see, not caring about the money, only caring about winning, that's a luxury. You come from money, so you have the luxury of only caring about your accomplishments.
L. H. Cosway
#11. Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for.
Chris Hardwick
#12. I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.
Richard Jefferies
#13. 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.
Alanis Morissette
#14. Figure it out!" We always had to figure it out, so you can, too! We didn't have the luxury of people explaining why I couldn't use my left hand or why his family had no money. We just figured it out. But love is a funny thing.
Eddie Huang
#15. I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.
Tiger Woods
#16. I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.
Chip St. Clair
#17. Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
Janet Napolitano
#18. Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and explains that it is not the luxury of a few, such as those who take the course of religious life, but is "a simple duty of all. Holiness is for everyone.
Lucinda Vardey
#19. I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#20. The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.
Rose George
#22. They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.
Plutarch
#23. I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.
George Clooney
#24. Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."
A.C. Newman
#25. 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.
Herb Ritts
#26. All living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
Orson Scott Card
#27. Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.
George Gissing
#28. As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#30. But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
Bea Arthur
#31. Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.
Kevin McCarthy
#32. Parents don't have the luxury of being reasonable, not any more than a religious person does. What can make religious people and parents so utterly insufferable is also what makes religion and Parenthood so utterly beautiful: the All or nothing wager. The Faith.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#33. Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.
Jason Terry
#34. The luxury of relaxation ... is part of the healing process.
Shirley Corder
#35. The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
Bertrand Russell
#36. You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
Jean Cocteau
#37. John, I'll be blunt. You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought.
Robin S. Sharma
#38. The reality of an actor's life is that we do not always have the luxury of choice. We take what comes to us.
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
#39. Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
Rachel True
#40. The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#41. People only allow themselves the luxury of being insane when they are in a position to do so.
Paulo Coelho
#42. I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
Linda Vester
#43. I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be
cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world,.
Brad Pitt
#44. At a Clinton press conference, I'm given the luxury of daydreaming, of being comfortable enough that he could find Peru on a map, say, that I don't have to hang on his every word, praying he won't fuck up.
Sarah Vowell
#45. The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.
Kenneth Clark
#46. Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
Gary Hamel
#47. Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Paulo Coelho
#48. Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
Adrian Belew
#49. I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn't think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn't hold it against them in the long run. We couldn't afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.
Kiera Cass
#50. I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter's graduation. So many people don't have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic.
Thomas Perez
#51. Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless ...
David Levithan
#52. Dallas didn't have the luxury of keeping them all cozy anymore. Shut them down. Start with the power grid. Let's see how those fancy motherfuckers like the dark.
Kit Rocha
#53. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
Madeline Zima
#54. I miss him all the time." I shook my head, disgusted at my own mopiness. "It's like being haunted or something. And I don't have the luxury of being haunted right now. I need to think about myself ...
Jennifer Weiner
#55. Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Augusten Burroughs
#57. 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.
Enid Bagnold
#58. What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few.
Mother Teresa
#59. When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.
Woody Allen
#60. I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and beyond. So I don't think I'll ever have that feeling, unless I'm the one finishing the track.
David Macklovitch
#61. We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.
Mark Mothersbaugh
#62. Corbyn was not elected by the parliamentary party but by people who have the luxury of sounding off without the responsibility of answering for it. Corbyn represents the idiocy of direct democracy, and the culture of resentment that takes advantage of it.
Roger Scruton
#63. In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#64. He is perhaps fifteen - not truly a young man yet, but certainly well on his way - and he walks with the energy and indifference of one who possesses the luxury of youth but not yet the experience to appreciate its value or evanescence.
John Burley
#65. We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make all the decisions for us
John Boyne
#66. The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
Rem Koolhaas
#67. I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.
Anna Sui
#68. Objectivity allows you the luxury of not taking sides
Garrett McCoy
#70. What made you so unforgiving? (Simone)
Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you'll always be ignorant. (Xypher)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. What a great burden, the luxury of the way we live. Since no one makes suffer we have elected to volunteer.
Philip K. Dick
#72. We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.
Seth Rogen
#73. Truth is relative, then. It is about timing. It is about what is safe. Truth is the luxury of the privileged, of people who have plenty of food and are not forced to hide because they are Jews. Truth can destroy, and therefore it is not always wise or even healthy to be truthful.
Patricia Cornwell
#74. I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.
Billy Sherwood
#75. Only survivors are allowed the luxury of sadness.
Mike Mullin
#76. Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.
Michael Trucco
#77. If the world can no longer afford the luxury of natural beauty, then it will soon be overcome and destroyed by its own ugliness.
Romain Gary
#78. Most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions.
Susan Neiman
#79. It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
Orson Scott Card
#81. I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.
Robert Rauschenberg
#82. In general, I don't even have the luxury of rehearsal time on most films that I make. It is just a scene-by-scene full cast read through. It's very much just doing the rehearsal sometimes the day before, at the end of the day, but just on the spot as the scene unfolds.
Wes Craven
#83. What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.
Justin Broadrick
#84. When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
P. J. O'Rourke
#85. At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.
Beatrice Webb
#86. When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.
Amber Sealey
#87. Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to "How do I bear this?" need not always be "Endure.
Anna Lyndsey
#88. First-worlders have the luxury of not having to think about waste elimination very much. But for a third-worlder, poop is a big preoccupation.
Euny Hong
#89. I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.
Jonathan Lethem
#90. We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God's Word certainly doesn't give us the luxury of believing that.
R.C. Sproul
#91. The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.
Henry James
#92. I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.
Joyce DeWitt
#93. No one has the luxury of deciding "when" to travel; you wait prepared to travel whenever the border is open, which could be today, tomorrow or next week or three, four months from now.
Izzeldin Abuelaish
#94. To my surprise, it was a place where my thoughts were the most lucid. I wasn't bogged down in random trivial details or the luxury of time-consuming over-analysis. This place forced you to live because at any moment, life could be lost. Ramadi forced me to die unto myself.
M.B. Dallocchio
#95. I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.
Esther Rolle
#96. The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.
Rajneesh
#97. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot
#98. For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.
Romany Malco
#99. It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day ...
Benazir Bhutto
#100. I had the luxury of working on the script with Andrew [Dominik] for a good year before the film started, so I was already intimate with the story [of The Assassination of Jesse James] and felt quite prepared walking into it.
Brad Pitt
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