Quotes About Expense

It's sad when you say a $30 million film is an inexpensive film, but it is.

why the desire to increase and retain one's own earnings should be characterized negatively as "greed," while wishing to live at the expense of others is not.

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.'

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?

The last really expensive trip we took was so uncomfortable. It's so lazy. I want somebody to give me a great $30 massage as opposed to a bad $265 massage.

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Victorian women were forbidden from owning orchids because the shapes of the flowers were considered too sexually suggestive for their shy constitutions, and anyway the expense and danger and independence of collecting in the tropics were beyond any Victorian woman's ken.

I look coolly into the blue eyes of the person who is now my greatest opponent, the person who would keep me alive at his own expense. And I promise myself I will defeat his plan.

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

We can mistake the antifragility of the system for that of the individual, when in fact it takes place at the expense of the individual

because they cost more to run than the benefits they bring.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

You know how hard it is to be blonde? I have to get a highlight every month! Do you know how expensive that is?

If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense.

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.