#pensive

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#expensive #flights #hotels #player #professional

The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact was so lovely that the expensiveness became part of the point, part of the distinction between the people who could not afford a thing and the select few who not only could, but also understood the desirability of paying so much for it. Arabella knew that there were thoughtlessly rich people who could afford everything; she didn't see herself as one of them but instead as one of an elite who both knew what money meant and could afford the things they wanted; and the knowledge of what money meant gave the drama of high prices a special piquancy. She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant. She had a complete understanding of the signifiers. ↗

— John Lanchester

#luxury #price #rich #richness #wealth

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#even #expensive #fashion #more #t-shirts

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#before #classes #commitment #day #economical

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature. ↗

— Steve Largent

#access #battle #become #biggest #expensive

It is expensive to start from scratch though. ↗

— David Leslie

#scratch #start #though

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. ↗

— Jessica Mitford

#american public #dying #expensive #gracious #huge

We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things. ↗

— Graham Nash

#because #cut #deal #enough #expensive

As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#cost #democrats #economy #expensive #focused

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#expensive #political #wars #winners