#lux

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ↗

— George Eliot

#know #luxury #must #poor

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#blaming #devastating #emptiness #excuse #facing

It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#bag #basics #beautiful #belt #counts

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy. ↗

— George Sidney

#happy #i #know #live #lived

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#contemplation #costs #luxury #nothing #only

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit. ↗

— John Landis

#i #luxury #snow #thinking #up

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#existence #flux #future #intensely #mobile

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ↗

— Sophocles

#bloated #ever #excellence #house #luxury

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. ↗

— George Soros

#constantly #flux #made #markets #money

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting. ↗

— Peter Stormare

#being #boy #human #human being #i