#pensive

It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#care #color #expensive #fur #hair

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#expensive #golf #i #marbles #playing

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#demands #enormous #enormous pressure #expensive #high

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#earned #expensive #fortune #luck #smile

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#follies #mischievous #ones #very #wars

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#necessary #possible #unlikely #unnecessary #want

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

#boot #crack #damage #does #equivalent

Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to be that much higher to cover their more expensive debt. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#cover #debt #entity #expensive #higher

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone