Lavish Expenditure Quotes & Sayings

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding. — Studs Terkel

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day. — Curtis Hanson

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible. — Spike Jonze

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable. — Edmund Hillary

Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy. — Tom Shales

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
— Nora Roberts

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. — Frederick Douglass

The journey of a lifetime is within, you are your own destination. Rick Jarow — Brian O'Raleigh

The expenditure of paper and printer ink had been somewhat lavish. Two generations from now, if any humans survived, they would look on this heap of documents with some combination of disgust and amazement. Because paper was going to be scarce by then, and they would view its use for such purposes in roughly the same way as Americans of the twenty-first century had viewed the use of sperm whale oil to fuel streetlamps. — Neal Stephenson

Your life is a sculpture, every day chip away. — J.R. Rim

The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. — Frederick Douglass

Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us. — Alexander MacLaren

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel De Cervantes

The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience. — George Stevens

I'm not bitching."
"Yes, you are. You're bitching like a junior miss beauty queen. — Rick Yancey

Love truth, and pardon error. — Voltaire

Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed. — Charlotte Bronte