#pensive

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

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#because #corporate #expensive #investment #investors

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things. ↗

— Bai Ling

#buy #expensive #flowers #gifts #guys

You don't get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn't accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive. ↗

— Brian Baird

#bill #cap #complicated #enormously #every

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#cannot #container #department #detection #devices

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#expensive #generation #live #lives #lot

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#education #expensive #isolation #little #more

If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#free #musing #philosophical #philosophy #time

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. ↗

— Tim Burton

#expensive #form #like #me #therapy

The Chair I’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chair look like a throne while you sat on it. Amidst your absence, I choose to sit on the floor, which is dusty as a dry Kansas day. I am stoic as a statue of Buddha, not wanting to bother the old wooden chair, which has been silent now for months. In this sunlit moment I think of you. I can still picture you sitting there-- your forehead wrinkled like an un-ironed shirt, the light splashed on your face, like holy water from St. Joseph’s. The chair, with rounded curves like that of a full-figured woman, seems as mellow as a monk in prayer. The breeze blows from beyond the curtains, as if your spirit has come back to rest. Now a cloud passes overhead, and I hush, waiting to hear what rests so heavily on the chair’s lumbering mind. Do not interrupt, even if the wind offers to carry your raspy voice like a wispy cloud. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#chair #insightful #metaphor #peaceful #pensive