#expensive

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. ↗

— Amber Valletta

#big #closet #expensive #feels #gems

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#before #blacks #embracing #expensive #first

My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#always #could #expected #expensive #had

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#bang #books #good #however #i

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#best #certain #expensive #foods #know

If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#expensive #i #never #point #thing

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#chance #expensive #fortune #getting #giving

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#expensive #hollywood #leper #living #most

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent. ↗

— Peter Singer

#causes #children #die #diseases #easy

Fabrics and lining make a big difference in the garment. If you're buying an expensive trench coat, and it's lined in something cheap, it doesn't feel as nice. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#big difference #buying #cheap #coat #difference