Quotes of: Expensive Keyword

Honouring the youth of their town they provided a décor that a £20-a-Martini fleecing parlour could not have amortized. They had bought eighty low Alvar Aalto stools for the alcove and coctail bar seating. Also, twenty tall numbers in the same bent...

24 Hour Party People

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

A Fire Upon the Deep

If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.

The Fourth Way

I am opposed to Naperville. It's all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class America.

Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

Bob Barr

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

Siri Hustvedt

The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.

Accounting for the Numberphobic: A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners

The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn't know what he was doing." "You mean you went to an expensive school?

Knots and Crosses

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?

Shade's Children

Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

For the most expensive way to realize an orgasm, men open their wallets. For the cheapest, they close their eyes.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

I buy the most expensive trash bags, and the lowest quality products to consume and throw away. As a lover, I’m always thinking about the end user.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.

Unwrapping Christmas

Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.

Us

Clothes are expensive. Save money and become a nudist. Remember: Fashions may change, but naked is always in style.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other...

Jon Meacham

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

Pat Conroy

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

Princess Diana

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Paul Farmer