Expensive Quotes

I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

It's very expensive to be me.

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

If you have real, internal value, you don't need a loud, expensive imitation.

With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside.

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

Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighborhood.

Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all!

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

Owning a racehorse is probably the most expensive way of getting on to a racecourse for nothing.

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

Free love is too expensive.

Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.

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

Your cat just got cat hair on me.” “It’s only fair,” Min said. “Your suit just got expensive suit lint on him.

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

The pleasure of eating something because it is expensive has absolutely nothing to do with the taste of good cuisine.

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

There are two kinds of marketing: expensive and inexpensive. Expensive marketing is the kind that doesn't work. Inexpensive marketing is the kind that works—regardless of cost.

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.