Pastoral Resources

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.