Luxury Quotes

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

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.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

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

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.