#expensive

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store! ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#candy store #eating #expensive #kid #know

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. ↗

— Charley Reese

#efficient way #expensive #government #incompetent #inefficient

Simply put, drilling in ANWR would be expensive, environmentally devastating, and would do very little to fix our energy crisis or to bring down the price of oil and gasoline. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#bring #crisis #devastating #down #drilling

I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#always #busy #coach #expensive #i

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive. ↗

— Brian Baird

#bill #cap #complicated #enormously #every

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#alive #everyone #expensive #i #lawyers

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#fail #international #life #national life #noted

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#expensive #foreign #hard #husband #like

If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#free #musing #philosophical #philosophy #time