Quotes About Expensive

I took my wife to a really expensive hotel in Dubai. This was when we were first dating, so I wanted to impress her. I had scallops, and after that, I went to the bathroom to be sick. I realised I had just paid £300 or £400 on scallops just to throw it up. My wife and I then talked about it; I knew I had a problem.

There's only one way to steal a car and not feel guilty about it, and that's to steal the most expensive car you can find. That way, you know that it carries the maximum insurance possible, so whatever happens, the owner is covered.

The books beside my bed are like the expensive, and suspiciously unsullied, pair of running shoes in the cupboard: an aspiration, and a symbol of the man I would like to be rather than the one I truly am.

It was a big white hotel on Wilshire, plush and expensive, its dining room one of the most popular spots in town among those who didn't mind paying four dollars for a hamburger. At the desk, I asked for Julie Tangier.

change how you run the assets that deliver expensive nonnegotiable attributes.

But it'll cost the earth!

dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford.

Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy. His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?

Donata seriously considered taking up a life of crime just so she could pay to have this coffee every morning,

You can buy all sorts of expensive fancy waters that will supposedly give you more energy, make you smarter, and turn straw into gold. (Okay, I made up that last one, but frankly, I think it is about as likely to happen as the first two. Mostly the only thing those specialty waters do is magickally turn your money into someone else's money.)

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success we forget the easiness of free beauty lying sad right around the corner, only an instant removed, unnoticed and squandered.

Don't open the door to strangers," said her dad. "Unless they're selling something. Then open the door and see if I'd like it. If I'd like it, buy it for me. But nothing cheap. I have standards. Nothing too expensive, either. My standards aren't that high.

Incidentally, I don't see why the wine is as expensive as it is in the country that makes the stuff. Perhaps they can see you coming.

Your cat just got cat hair on me." "It's only fair," Min said. "Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him.

In antiquity, the Gospel was not read by most people, in part because copying books was expensive, and in part because most people were illiterate. Instead, the Gospel was performed. We can picture the speaker, demonstrating angelic exasperation, wondering how he will deal with this obtuse priest.

The problem with traditional pie weights is you never have enough and they're expensive. Common substitutes like dried beans just aren't heavy enough to do the job. Our genius solution? Small steel balls that fit inside ball bearings and that can be purchased at any hardware store.

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state, and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.

I'm a fan of very, very expensive creams: Creme de la Mer, La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe. I'm a huge fan. They work.

In Portugal, you couldn't always find Premier League kits, and if you could, they were really expensive.

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.

In each case it depends on the needs of each team, what the club is willing to pay and what the other demands. Then time will tell if a player has been cheap or expensive.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.