#pensive

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#gratitude #profitable #revenge

If the shoe fits, it's too expensive. ↗

— Adrienne Gusoff

#fits #shoe #too

It was an amazing mistake to lose 10p on every copy because your sleeve is so expensive. ↗

— Peter Hook

#because #copy #every #expensive #lose

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#director #entrepreneur #expensive #extinct #fascinates

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

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#cold #common #cozy #expensive #far

Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#because #cure #expensive #going #just