Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
I just knew that there was a gap in the market for easy, comfortable garments that are neither luxury nor pret, but somewhere in between.
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don’t have that luxury.
It’s such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
I’m not a girl who’s into home comforts and luxury.
I knew a homeless guy who’d give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there’s something that makes us want to give. For me, it’s quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.
Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.
Just because you’re a luxury brand doesn’t mean you have to have an attitude.
We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.
To me, my brand is luxury, it’s art, it’s women, it’s raw, it’s urban.
I’m lucky that I’ve been able to do things in my career that is affording us the luxury of not having to travel in a van to tour.
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.
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
Alexander Wang is a young designer, and his style is so profound. He took sports and street and kind of combined it into upscale high fashion. He made a white T-shirt a luxury.
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it’s through time.
The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don’t have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.
There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don’t have.
I’ve always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
When we were kids, we didn’t have the luxury to take decisions of our life as the right was reserved for our parents. There were a lot of insecurities, not necessarily towards how we look but otherwise as well.
For me I’m a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it’s not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it’s about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.
I’m not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, ‘I need 10,000 more of whatever.’ But I can’t – because then it’s not art, it’s something else.
The most rewarding thing is having a job that you love. It’s not a luxury that everyone in this world enjoys.
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
Luxury and elegance can be affordable, and I think a MUST!
With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.
I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don’t have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.
Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.
The greatest luxury is being free.
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked store of our reading experience.
I’ve been writing the show with Nigel Coan, the director of ‘Luxury Comedy’, and Tom Meeten. Three’s good. With two, you can lock horns a bit. On your own, you’re not sure whether what you’ve made is any good. I don’t know how people write novels. I would go mad.
I think it’s a luxury when you love the thing you’re promoting, and then you don’t have to try to think of something, try and find some angle.
I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour – to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk – but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That’s a nice luxury and he is very supportive.
I like to say time is a luxury.
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now – no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
I don’t read my books, so I don’t allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently.
But that’s one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn’t work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) – once a luxury for room-sized computer installations – is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, protecting servers and online service providers, Internet backbones, phone companies, and even cable TV networks.
It’s wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many families in my district and across the county are struggling to make ends meet.
I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world’s fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
Some people get the wrong idea about what the job of a cricket correspondent involves – it’s not all laid-on luxury travel.
The luxury market and its consumer are very flexible and reactive.
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.
Making a record with ‘Depeche Mode’ is not a simple process. It’s quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I’m not sure that’s such a good thing when you’re being creative.
Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
Sometimes you get the luxury of having a script for a really long time, and you can get to talk with the director or the producers, and evolve with the role.
I’m not a real central-Moscow kid. I’m not used to luxury stuff.
The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.
You can’t afford to hop around and act like a kid when you have to get back on defense and worry about the other parts of the game. But at the end, when the buzzer sounds, you have the luxury of hopping around and looking foolish for a while.
There is a common misconception that when you’re a singer working for a recording company you get to pick everything you’re doing. Very few people have been accorded such a luxury.
Most companies don’t have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
Early on, you don’t have the luxury of a lot of choices. Sometimes you’re forced to do things that will advance your career and not necessarily things that fulfill you artistically, but I’ve been fortunate to do a lot of both.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
It’s not unusual for a luxury company to be born from a single product and then diversify. Louis Vuitton began with luggage, and Gucci with leather goods.
Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child, or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn’t necessarily have to mean expensive.
I’m not going to have a six-pack abs. I think it’s a luxury to have six-pack abs, but I don’t think I can afford it yet. It’s extremely tough, and I think having it will be an achievement.
I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.
The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that’s just beyond anything we’ve ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.
