Top 55 Extravagant Quotes

I don’t think I’m unduly extravagant.

Davos is an extravagant bun-fight of the vanities, where the ‘haves’ gather to strike deals with the ‘have-mores.’

I don’t live in a big house. I’m not real extravagant or anything. I just like to be regular.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

I don’t know how to overcome this perception that I’m extravagant.

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

I’m not extra, I’m not going to be the person walking around the house in an extravagant gown during quarantine.

There was a Saint Laurent dress that I actually had to hide from my manager. I DJ’d for part of the money, did a shoot and got a discount, and it was still one of my most extravagant purchases. I’ve worn it loads, even to do chores around the house, so surely that makes it ok?

Honestly, I’m not an extravagant person; I don’t spend a lot of money.

Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions – but not much cash.

In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history.

For dance recitals, my mom would do my makeup all extravagant because obviously I was really little and where else would I be wearing makeup? We would always be in her bathroom before the dance recital, and she’d do our hair and makeup.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Today, I give my daughter what I really didn’t have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.

I give myself little presents all the time. But I don’t do extravagant things.

Istanbul in the snow is a wonder. The extravagant pleasures on show in the Topkapi Palace Museum – the sultan’s robes thickly lined with squirrel fur, mobile foot-braziers to keep out a cold that whips relentlessly off the Bosphorus – presage modern-day sultanic delights.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

I am not really that extravagant.

I don’t spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.

Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagant spending of President Obama and the Democratic Party – absent any checks and balances – will eventually lead more people into government dependency, higher taxes, and, perhaps, our country’s financial ruin.

I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did ‘Love Story’, which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call ‘real’ work.’ I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer’s assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.

Every player thinks he’s Maradona when he joins a big club. That happens to all of us, but then you start to notice it in the younger players. You see kids who think they’re rock stars, wearing extravagant clothes and driving fancy cars… and sometimes you have to take them aside and have a word.

Jill Eisenstadt’s comic second novel, ‘Kiss Out,’ is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.

I like to wear colors and prints in the summer and play with extravagant accessories.

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.

Growing up, my favorite movie was ‘The Lion King.’ I used to watch it every day and create these extravagant stories with my Barbies and stuffed animals. My dad says I would say the entire movie out loud, and it’s still the one VHS that I have.

I’m not a frugal person, but I find it difficult to be extravagant materially.

‘Downton Abbey’ is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order – whose passing ‘Downton’s’ creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns – is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

I have pets, but they’re the really ordinary sort – yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish – that kind of stuff. Nothing very… extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes – seize it, don’t miss it.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it’s a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

I’m not an extravagant person. You don’t get a chance to spend money when you’re working on a TV show.

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the Federal Reserve and Treasury provide to the ‘banks too big to fail.’

Whether it be a bolder lip, a dewier cheek, a more lush lash, or an exceptionally extravagant eye, no time is better than the present for unleashing your cosmetic creativity.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

People say, ‘Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!’ But it’s not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but he was my father. I didn’t have another.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

The great thing about costume jewelry is that there’s something for everyone – there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

My life is extravagant.

I wouldn’t deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.

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

WrestleMania is one of those events where you want to put the most different, most extravagant, most exotic show you can out there.

I’m not extravagant. I share my house in London with five roommates. I take the Tube. I intend to stay the exact same person I always was.

There’s footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you’re supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.

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

Perhaps summer’s ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes – extravagant treats that aren’t as calorie-laden when we’re wearing flip flops.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Most of the comedies I’ve done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

I love the feeling of having as close to a steady job as you can ever have as an actor. I’m not an extravagant spender, so when I work on a TV show for a season or do a bunch of episodes as a reoccurring, I try to spread the money that comes from that out so that I can do these movies that are important to me.

If it’s extravagant, colorful and detailed, it catches my eye.