"An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

#Luxury Quotes #Age Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want,”
“The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.”
“You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.”
“It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.”
“I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success”
“If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find the start of our stories in their ears but the endings all around in their wandering eyes.”
“You never know what can happen,”
“It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships...”

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