Luxury Quotes - Page 2

• As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Giving Up, Writing, Agents

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• Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

  Christy Mathewson

  Sports, Baseball, Umpires

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin

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• I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

  John Landis

  Thinking, Snow, Grew Up

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

  Glenn Tipton

  Song, Tailors, I Can

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• Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

  Joseph Addison

  Stars, Thinking, Bless

  Joseph Addison (1860). “The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works”, p.400

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• Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

  Juvenal

  War, Long, Evil

  Juvenal (1873). “D. Iunii Iuvenalis satirae, with a literal tr. and notes, by J.D. Lewis”, p.68

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

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, People, Mind

  "Redemption songs". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

  Linda Vester

  Thinking, Numbers, Anchors

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• Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

  Ernest Mandel

  Country, Democracy, Needs

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• 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.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Hard Work, Athlete

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• I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

  Amy Tan

  Able, Way, Hours

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

  John Betjeman

  Views, Oil, People

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• It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Cradle, Rescue

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Ayala's Angel”, p.523, Jester House Publishing

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• I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

  Martin Short

  Objectivity, Careers, Kind

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• This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

  James Forrestal

  Country, Hype, Warfare

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• Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  People, Telephones, Taxes

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• I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

  Cat Stevens

  Christian, Home, World

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• Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

  Rachel True

  Nice, Blessed, Independent

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• Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

  Tennessee Williams

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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• For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

  Wim Wenders

  Music, World, Entertainment

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Class, Political, Politics

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• A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

  Wentworth Miller

  Support, Community, Identity

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

  Sarah McLachlan

  Years

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• The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Rights, World, Individual

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• My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive

  Jeri Ryan

  Jobs, Husband, Nice

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