Top 100 Too Expensive Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Anything that costs you your integrity is too expensive.
Jeffrey Fry
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I wont cry for you, my mascara's too expensive...
Adriana Lima
#7. Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.
Julia Child
#8. When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
Hector Hugh Munro
#9. 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
#10. I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
Caitlin Rose
#11. The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.
Elon Musk
#12. In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
Maggie Carey
#13. Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
Sarah Churchwell
#14. FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
Edsger Dijkstra
#15. Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
Madonna Ciccone
#16. I work in grand halls and bedchambers with wine and perfume. Not in dark alleyways with cloaks and knives. I don't like knives. I don't even own a knife. And my cloaks are far too expensive to risk bloodying.
Jim Butcher
#17. When I was young in the business, I felt anything I wanted to buy personally and professionally was always too expensive.
Mickey Drexler
#18. The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
Lee Child
#19. Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.
Will Oldham
#20. Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.
Ewen Bremner
#22. The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.
John Oates
#23. I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.'
Michael Graves
#24. Improv classes were too expensive, so I just started going to open mics. And the day I did it, I did, like, three because I just loved it so much. It was so much fun. And it wasn't good, it was just fun to do. It felt like a release.
Michael Che
#25. I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.
Bill Cunningham
#26. The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.
Eric Schlosser
#27. You know that relative that drives you so crazy that you sometimes wish you could ship them somewhere very far away, like Saturn? But then, of course, you would never do this, because deep down, you really love them - and shipping costs to Saturn are just too expensive. Well,
Natalie Grigson
#28. Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.
Ettore Bugatti
#29. I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.
Moby
#30. I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Jaron Lanier
#31. Don't open the door to strangers," said her dad. "Unless they're selling something. Then open the door and see if I'd like it. If I'd like it, buy it for me. But nothing cheap. I have standards. Nothing too expensive, either. My standards aren't that high.
Derek Landy
#33. All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago ... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.
Aaron Levie
#35. I love New York. But how much should it cost to call New York home? Decades of out-of-control budgets, spending hikes, and relentless borrowing have made New York simply too expensive.
Tom Golisano
#36. The mentality in Washington is, 'Look what our government - what our government can do for the American people.' We've got to get away from that mentality, and realize it's too expensive. We can't afford it.
Marlin Stutzman
#37. Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive ... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#38. All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.
Niall Ferguson
#39. My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition, so that the state is not required to pay for long-term residential care. Calling it what it is - brain damage - is too expensive.
Rose George
#40. What I really, really want to do is pre-packaged meals. Fabulous versions that are delicious, healthy, not too expensive and very low in fat. So, that's my big dream, because there's a massive hole in the market for that.
Elizabeth Hurley
#41. It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
Nate Lowman
#42. Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.
Dale Peck
#43. New York is dead. It's too expensive.
Carl Andre
#44. I don't really need new stuff anyway. I like to make big stuff, and it's too expensive to travel with. So I have my refined set that works well, and I'm pretty much set with that.
Z'EV
#46. Sometimes the price one pays for something continues to grow after the fact,becoming too expensive long after it has been paid.
Jenny Erpenbeck
#47. Eva knew that her mom hadn't gotten the vegan sorbet because it was too expensive. In their home, cost was the main reason why something good didn't happen.
J. Ryan Stradal
#48. The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will cost them thousands extra a year in premiums. Wait a minute. It's their bill. If it's too expensive, why did they name it the Affordable Care Act?
Jay Leno
#50. Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#51. Helen was beautiful in the way a supercomputer was beautiful: sleek with elegant but utilitarian styling, full of top-notch technological know-how, far too expensive for most people to possess.
Maggie Stiefvater
#52. Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.
Frederick W. Smith
#53. Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Ann Oakley
#54. Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.
Geoff Mulgan
#55. You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Stephen Sondheim
#56. Dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford.
Robert A. Caro
#57. The USA have recently done well in the Olympics and the Youth World Cup. So I think there will be some good young players available in the future, and not too expensive which is important to the club.
Richard Gough
#58. What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.
Brandon Sanderson
#59. I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert Grint and Til Schweiger and those guys, so you really want to make sure that they, that I don't have to shut off the camera because I'm running out of film or it becomes too expensive.
Fredrik Bond
#60. You piss me off you Salmon ... You're too expensive in restaurants.
Eddie Izzard
#61. Life is too short, and cigars are too expensive, to smoke them for any reason other than enjoyment.
Jonah Goldberg
#62. Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.
Hod Lipson
#63. Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
James Cook
#64. Not one person can afford your dream; the execution of it is too expensive.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#65. The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.
Joseph M. Kyrillos
#66. Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
Majora Carter
#67. I got in before SoHo was SoHo. It was just Little Italy when I was in there. It's still off the touristy track. It's just away from the Saturday action, the crowds and everything. It's too expensive. It's insane. You've got to be a billionaire to live on Manhattan now.
Joni Mitchell
#68. It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.
Kevin Smith
#69. Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce
#70. I've been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night.
Judah Friedlander
#71. I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
Ben Wheatley
#73. The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
Martin McDonagh
#74. And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.
George Orwell
#75. How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.
Dejan Stojanovic
#76. TV, a Pioneer in the series they had to stop making because it was too expensive, too good for the price they commanded. Truls had got the last one, bought with money he had earned by burning evidence against a pilot who had been smuggling heroin for Asayev.
Jo Nesbo
#77. Putside it's cold... I have a phone a book I can't buy... it's too expensive.. what has been left from my father has end... killers are cold, people are cold, films are cold and books are cold... where I am going to reach with this???
Deyth Banger
#78. Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.
Fran Lebowitz
#79. The idea that somewhere in the desert far away you have a CO2 absorber that's removing the CO2 from the air is an attractive one. It's a costly process that many will say is too expensive, but so are fuel cells in cars. It's a matter of political will to move this forward.
Klaus Lackner
#80. I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead to violence.
Lev L. Spiro
#81. If I find God's mobile number, I wouldn't call Him, that would be too expensive!..
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.
Rush Limbaugh
#83. I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive
Jon Bernthal
#84. 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
#85. She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.
Gillian Flynn
#86. Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell
#87. Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
Beryl Bainbridge
#88. You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'
Louis Kahn
#89. It doesn't matter how nice that expensive watch looks on your wrist if you don't know how to tell time correctly. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if it costs you too much to make it.
Vincent J. Monteleone
#90. Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.
Gary Neville
#91. Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.
James Harden
#92. 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
#93. Never use the word "cheap". Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#94. We made too many expensive movies trying to offset the loss of the 'LOTR' income. There was a lot of pressure to re-create that franchise, which turned out to be unhealthy for us, because it's such a once-in-a-lifetime success. It would be like trying to re-create 'Avatar' over and over again.
Toby Emmerich
#95. I remember seeing 'Hairspray' when I was 15, and it is such a luxury to be able to see a Broadway show, and it is so hard to do if you don't live in New York - plus, it can be expensive to go to the theatre all the time, too.
Nikki Blonsky
#96. They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them - the oil to make anything - was long gone, or at least so expensive it might as well not exist. She wanted
Jeri Smith-Ready
#97. My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
Valerie June
#98. Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, human space flight is expensive. But they need to look longer term.
Helen Sharman
#99. The honest man might observe ... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
David Mamet
#100. Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.
Joel Fuhrman
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