Expensive Quotes - Page 24

• In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, California, Hollywood

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

  B. B. King

  Notes

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• There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading as egalitarianism.

  Camille Paglia

  Egalitarianism, Political, Phrases

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• Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Color, Wealth

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

  E. M. Forster

  Dog, Flower, Gun

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• The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.

  Darrell Huff

  Mean, Cost, Use

  Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Never do anything to a clitoris with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Teeth

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Money, Years, Luxury

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Men, Quality, Charity

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1823). “The School for Scandal: A Comedy”, p.128

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• We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

  David Mamet

  Hollywood, Sinkholes, Monasteries

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

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• Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

  Luke Perry

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Car

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

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• I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Grids

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

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• Since I'm known as a 'rich person', I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Money, Years, Coats

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• And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.

  Tony Kushner

  Art, New York, Mean

  "Pulitzer-winning playwright talks gay marriage, Obama, new play". Interview with Chris Welch, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2009.

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• It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

  George Wald

  Mean, Breakfast Food, Giving

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• The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Care, Minutes

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• It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Hell, Dangerous

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Be rather bountiful, than expensive.

  William Penn

  William Penn (1839). “Fruits of solitude ... New edition”, p.44

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• The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.

  Thornton Wilder

  Luxury, World

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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• To be in the right is often an expensive business.

  Phyllis Bottome

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• I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

  Anna Kournikova

  Luxury, People, Gourmet

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• Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ambition, Emotional, Different

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• Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

  George Osborne

  Simple, Needs, Rich

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