#pensive

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#conscience #expensive #life #many #more

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive. ↗

— Moliere

#known #man #most #noises #opera

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#climate #come #continue #current #expensive

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#around #better #business #global #halfway

I like to do a face steam, so, heat up a flannel, press it onto your face and then press a cold one on afterwards to close the pores. It's inexpensive! ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#close #cold #face #flannel #heat

If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#expensive #i #never #point #thing

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#chance #expensive #fortune #getting #giving

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

#expensive #hollywood #leper #living #most

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lonely #principled #usually

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#construction #expensive #installation #makes #objects