Extravagant Quotes - Page 8

• Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe.

  Peter York

  People, Odd Things, Hats

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• When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Self, Soul, Austerity

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.133

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• When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

  Evan Esar

  Husband, Regret, Ministers

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• To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Past, Age, Complaining

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 4

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• Sometimes the show needs that kick in the ass so being able to sing a Nirvana song kind of takes it there. I've grown up putting on extravagant shows with Girl Talk so when I'm playing I like to go nuts. After 30 minutes of pointing and clicking it's nice to scream into a microphone for three minutes.

  Girl Talk

  Girl, Song, Nice

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Powerful, Loud Voices, Long

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• The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Luxury, Arrogance

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

  Roald Amundsen

  Scales, Regions

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.176, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

  David Quammen

  Unique, Islands, Natural

  David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage

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• It was the economic benefit,You make a comfortable living in public service and you get a fairly comfortable retirement, if you watch your pennies and you're not extravagant. But in television, if a show goes, you make a substantial amount of money. So, economically it just didn't make sense for me not to.

  Mills Lane

  Retirement, Pennies, Comfort

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• I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

  Fran Kranz

  Becoming One, People, Age

  "Interview with Fran Kranz, Star, CBS’s Welcome to the Captain". Interview with Alex Remington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2008.

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• I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Donald Trump: Be bold and buy real estate now". "The Larry King Live Show", www.cnn.com. April 16, 2009.

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• ...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Sea, Cooking

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• Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

  Laurence Sterne

  Art, Humor, Enemy

  Laurence Sterne (1847). “Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C”, p.29

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• The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

  Helmut Schmid

  Extravagance, Latter, Exaggeration

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• He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Extravagance, Poverty, Corruption

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.21

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• I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

  Peter Capaldi

  Coffee, Grateful, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.178

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• I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question that he was the architect and I was the advisor and consultant. No man learns to design a golf course simply by playing golf, no matter how well. But it happened that both of us were extravagant admirers of the Old Course at St Andrews and we both desired as much as possible to simulate seaside conditions insofar as the differences in turf and terrain would allow.

  Bobby Jones

  Team, Golf, Men

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• American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Women, Self, Two

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• My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

  Petra Stunt

  Crazy, Parent, House

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• My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!

  Sasha Pieterse

  Cute, Mom, Princess

  "Pretty Little Liars Halloween Prequel Premieres Tonight!". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. Ocotber 19, 2011.

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• My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

  Britt Ekland

  Summer, Beach, Father

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• The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Gestures, Stuff

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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