Quotes About Extravagance

I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

I like big, flashy production and videos.

The twins, who were clearly having a splendid time, had adorned themselves outlandishly. Cassandra was dressed in a green opera cloak with a jeweled feather ornament affixed to her hair. Pandora had tucked a light blue lace parasol beneath one arm, and a pair of lawn tennis rackets in the other, and was wearing a flowery diadem headdress that had slipped partially over one eye.

Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.

If youre the Kardashians, a family vacation means private jets to the Maldives, luxury yachts, and 5-star dinners. But for the rest of us, its usually more about endless car trips, gas station meals, bratty little sisters, and about ten trillion embarrassing moments.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

He liked Washington, the "subdued elegance" of Sixteenth Street and the extravagance of Massachusetts Avenue, the simplicity of the monuments, the lack of pretension.

Hot chocolate should be sinful, and I don't believe in sinning in half measures.

A lot of things we don't have to have, but they're enjoyable.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

Wisdom gives a leader balance and helps to avoid eccentricity and extravagance. If knowledge comes by study, wisdom comes by Holy Spirit filling. Then a leader can apply knowledge correctly. "Full of wisdom" is one of the requirements for even subordinate leaders in the early church (Acts 6:3).

I'm more girly but I also wanted to pull off the vintage, Hollywood glamour slightly circus style.

When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.

Uma das principais extravagâncias do período contemporâneo é reduzir a filosofia a uma simples "reflexão crítica" ou ainda a uma "teoria da argumentação".

Everyone looks like they've just stepped out of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting that he never got around to finishing because even he knew it was too over the top. It

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

My films are larger than life.

Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.