Quotes About Expensive

I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.

He was built like a very small supermarket: Compact; expensive if you crossed him.

Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.

Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool?

at the wide wooden table, sharpening my knives.  A cook's knives are her greatest asset, and if they go dull, they are no use at all and should be replaced. As decent knives are hideously expensive, I kept mine in good repair. I did not trust anyone with

Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool? In any case, I carefully tore the clean end of the sheet from the written area and tucked it into my drawer to save for my own letters.

litigation has proved to be a singularly unsatisfactory solution. It is expensive, drawn out, and painfully adversarial. It helps very few people.

While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail.

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

Life is too short, and cigars are too expensive, to smoke them for any reason other than enjoyment.

The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards.

This tight coupling of the application to the specifics of the implementation strips away most of the benefits of abstraction in the domain layer and makes continuing changes ever more expensive.

We do not undertake to quarrel with the laws of nature. Our ignorance oftentimes puts us in opposition to them, and a very expensive position we find it to be, because they never yield, and in the end, of course, we must.

The furniture looked like John Lewis – expensive, comfortable and unimaginative.

ese señor Godoy es un alma de cántaro, y que no ha estudiado latín ni teología, pues todo su saber se reduce a tocar la guitarra y a conocer los veintidós modos de bailar la gavota. Parece que por su linda cara le han hecho, primer ministro. Así andan las cosas de España; luego, hambre y más hambre… todo tan caro… la fiebre amarilla asolando a Andalucía…

What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.

Boston's justice system is in serious need of reform. Many of its policies and practices are antiquated, expensive, and don't really even make Boston safer.

Well, peace is a very expensive commodity in my country, as well as in my region.

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.

Get your nutritional information from registered dieticians, not miracle healers. You'll be happier, and it's less expensive.

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.

My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.

You don't see a lot of super-high-end hotels being built in Houston because it's so expensive to build, unless you're in New York and can charge $1,000 a night.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.