Quotes About Extravagant

Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.

Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash.

She was emancipated, rebellious, extravagant, decadent, daring, and very much in love with beauty.

For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way.

common people, who, in any difficult crisis and great exigency, ever look for relief rather to strange and extravagant than to reasonable means

Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.

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If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.

Easter-egg hunt ~ Roald Dahl loved Easter, especially the eggstraordinarily eggciting and eggstremely eggstravagant egg hunts he went on as a child.

I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.

The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces.

I grew up in Cincinnati, the birthplace of the creamiest and most delicious ice cream with the hugest chocolate chips. Graeter's used to be available only regionally, but an extravagant thing you could do was overnight-ship six pints to another state, in dry ice.

That's what my wardrobe room looks like. It's all costumes and props. It's ridiculous.

The persuasive power of normal life is extravagant. To accept less than life when less is not overwhelmingly upon you is—at least for some—unacceptable.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

I spend money as if I had it.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth

Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!