Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive.
I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.
Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.
It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.
Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it.
As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them.
New York is a brutally expensive place to live, and the kind of person who might have the dedication and esoteric taste to make the comics that I would really love is finding it more relaxing to live elsewhere.
These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
Drift racing is expensive.
I need a SUV, for me and my four sisters. So, I've narrowed it down to four, kind of expensive, cars.
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.
One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.
As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
With the Australian Government paying more of the hospital bills, it will have the incentive to make sure people are treated through less expensive and more appropriate primary care services.
It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.
It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese and Vietnamese love their pork. Many Indians, especially the Muslims, can't live without their lamb.
