Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

Imelda Marcos

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Chris Martin

The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.

Plutarch

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Sallust

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

Tanith Lee

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

Willa Cather

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

William Shenstone

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Alan Ladd

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

Charles Spurgeon

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

Djuna Barnes

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

Bryce Courtenay

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week.

Jane Austen

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

Jane Austen

Arguments are too much like disputes.

China Mieville

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

William Shakespeare

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

Charles Stanley

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

John Ryding

The plunge in durable goods orders in January is entirely due to volatility in transportation. The underlying details of this report are much stronger than the headline.

Ashwin Sanghi

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

Bjarne Stroustrup

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

Benny Goodman

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

Diane Ackerman

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

Cobi Jones

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.