Extravagant Quotes

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Not going to give casual worship to a God of extravagant beauty and grace!

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.

I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.

I don't have extravagant tastes or expenses - like with cars, clothes, or whatever.

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

When you think that most of us are doomed by divine grace to roast in hell, to say nothing of mortgages and hail and bad crops and extravagant womenfolks, 'tain't any laughing matter!

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

New York... Babylon-on-the-Hudson, sinful, extravagant, full of the nervous hilarity of the doomed.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.

Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe.

Love by its very nature is extravagant, but we poor human beings, so caught up in fear and worry, limit the very love we were created to bring into the world.

A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.