No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
Mary Wortley

Nobody has money right now. And eating is very important, but it doesn't need to be expensive. And to make - it doesn't need to be fancy, as long as it's fresh and simple. The simpler it is, the more fancy it actually comes out tasting.
Debi Mazar

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
Gilbert Parker

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

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
Carlo Collodi

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
Steve Case

Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.
Gil Gerard

People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
Wayne Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
Itzhak Perlman

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon

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

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

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'
Conan O'Brien

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
Lee Child

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

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
Eric Clapton

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
John Sladek