#luxury

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

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #luxury #people #possibility #talk

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#childhood #childhood memories #chocolate #feeling #first

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#band #finest #forget #gets #i

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#criminality #enemy #folly #gates #luxury

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#continent #easy #imported #luxury #necessity

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#because #blockbuster #body #everything #getting

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#designer #fashion #i #i think #idea

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#came #citizens #culture #ebay #end

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#luxury #people #time #who #writer

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#monarchies #poverty #republics #ruins