Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Stanley

In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

Ludwig von Mises

Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

Ludwig von Mises

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.

Andy Buchsbaum

We don't have the luxury of waiting one more shipping season to regulate these (overseas) vessels.

Jeff Mikulina

We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Calvin Trillin

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Cynthia Ozick

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.

Cary Fukunaga

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Christian McKay

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

N. K. Jemisin

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

Philip Dick

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Mae Jemison

I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

Lisa McMann

I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

William Gibson

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

Andrea Barrett

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

Neil Gaiman

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.

Isaac Asimov

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

George R. R. Martin

There are no happy endings.

George R. R. Martin

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

Federico Fellini

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

Jodi Picoult

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

Gregory Maguire

Happy endings are still endings.

Peter S. Beagle

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

Roman Polanski

Happy endings make me puke.