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Quotes About Extravagance

Vegas is the best place to go out. You can't stay more than two nights, but everything is so big and grand.
~ Shanina Shaik
You don't wear leather bucket hats in Vegas.
~ Gilbert Arenas
Whenever I play Las Vegas, they always give you a suite, and it's really nice, and it always comes with a large bathtub.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.
~ Roger Stone
I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments.
~ Carolyn Murphy
You've made yourself more available than a whore in a Las Vegas casino.
~ Jeffrey Archer
In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.
~ Paul Young
Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
~ Lorna Luft
Goodness great-shoes! A literal bloodbath, dahling?
~ Tyra Banks
Las Vegas — my favorite desert mirage.
~ Unknown
And they finally had a use for Chitiratifor's flashy outfits.
~ Vernor Vinge
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
~ Virginia Woolf
Show business is like Champagne. You'll appreciate it more if you don't drink it everyday
~ Jay Leno
I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.
~ Mia Sara
Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.
~ Billy Childish
Half a million dollars just to upgrade the car show I aint even detonate the bombs in the arsenal
~ Nicki Minaj
Immigrant parents who considered even potholders an extravagance. Slam its tail in the door of the milk truck and a stray cat could easily yowl out a single certain to top the charts back in Sparta or Thessaloniki. Angels, she said, were God's way of saying howdy.
~ David Sedaris
The mansion and its furnishings cost nine million dollars—the equivalent of more than 150 million dollars today. "Extravagance and ostentation marked every social gathering" at Marble House, the New York Times observed, and "the jewels worn at balls were valued in the millions of dollars.
~ David Von Drehle
Nothing will cut New York but a diamond. ?
~ Dawn Powell
That's life. The celebration of the superfluous.
~ Yasmina Reza
Monsieur Octave de Camps, he said, having wasted his means on a certain Madame Firmiani, was now reduced to teaching mathematics for a living, while awaiting his uncle's death, not daring to let him know of his dissipations.
~ Honore de Balzac
Time has become the costliest commodity, so no one can afford the lavish extravagance of going home to-morrow morning and getting up late. Hence, there is no second soiree now but at the houses of women rich enough to entertain, and since July 1830 such women may be counted in Paris.
~ Honore de Balzac
As for me, I'm not duped by his misfortunes; he doesn't look like a man who fails to get the best of things! Somebody finds him a good place, and there he is, leading the life of a Sardanapalus with a ballet-girl, and guzzling the funds of his journal; that costs the mother another twelve thousand francs! I don't care two straws for myself, but Philippe will bring that poor woman to beggary.
~ Honore de Balzac
Swisha House presented this vibe of candy-painted cars and big chains. I always had a fascination for flashy, expensive things.
~ Riff Raff