Luxury Quotes

Athletics is a luxury.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

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

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.