Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trudi Canavan

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

Wentworth Miller

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Samuel Richardson

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

W. H. Auden

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

William Graham Sumner

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Samuel Johnson

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world

Oscar de la Renta

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

Erica Jong

... poetry is fired by love ...

Gwendolyn Brooks

The poetry is myself.