#lux

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#civilization #decencies #luxuries #said #spring

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#because #big #black-and-white #contact #down

Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#bit #challenging #competitive #creating #cuisine

I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#coffee #dumped #feeling #gently #given

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise. ↗

— Dario Argento

#been #being #compromise #each #enough

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries. ↗

— Cher

#luxuries #necessities

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#monarchies #poverty #republics #ruins

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#checked #civilization #could #distance #hard

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#everyday #i #i love #into #love