Expensive Quotes

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.
Robert Fripp

Possible, Necessary, Unlikely

I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.
Antonio Banderas

Morning, Youth, Read

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
Burt Reynolds

Marriage, Done, Laundry

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'
Dave Chappelle

Father, Beginning, Name

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.
Diane von Furstenberg

Husband, Bad, Put

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

Government, Matter, Possible

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
Christopher Walken

Movies, Play, Again

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
Jesse Jackson

Love, Work, Today

I don't have a lavish lifestyle with expensive cars.
Donny Osmond

Cars, Lifestyle, Lavish

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
Barbara Corcoran

Rich, Old, Second

The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.
Josh Brolin

Great, Bad, Lazy

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!
Anna Kournikova

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
Paul Theroux

Lonely, Principled

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
Jonathan Kozol

Knowledge, Live, Long

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.
Evan Davis

Women, Once, Trouble

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes

Movies are an expensive business.
Albert Brooks

Business, Movies

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
Tom Hooper

Money, Film, Television

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Jaron Lanier

Change, Stuff, Complexity

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
Barney Frank

High, System, Crack

I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.
Robert Pattinson

Thought, Hot, Spend

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

Busy, Pay, Coach

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch

Compromise, Either

When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.
Ron Wyden

Health, Care, Treat

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

Work, Everyone, Used

Marriage can be expensive, and if I lose millions then it'll be the best millions I've spent.
Seth Rogen

Marriage, Best, Lose

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Work, Time, Another

Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
Bobby Flay

Work, Find, Few

And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, as far as I'm concerned, is in New York the pride of New York theater.
Tony Kushner

Art, Mean, Night

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.
Thomas Friedman

Thinking, Problem, Once

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