#extravagant

I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without. ↗

— Edward Weston

#anything #best #cameras #extravagant #further

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#amusing #beautiful #comic #deeply #even

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#build #center #doing #every #extravagant

I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I'm not an extravagant spender, so when I work on a TV show for a season or do a bunch of episodes as a reoccurring, I try to spread the money that comes from that out so that I can do these movies that are important to me. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#bunch #close #comes #episodes #ever

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#each #extravagant #house #lovely #own

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress. ↗

— Wayne Rogers

#actress #also #being #derek #everybody

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#age #been #child-bearing #costly #distinctive

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#ended #extravagant #out #plain #pure

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. ↗

— Charles Ives

#better #curious #definiteness #extravagant #hope

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#extravagant #i #lifestyle #lived #studio