Extravagance Quotes

“At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”

“At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, ‘Come down to the water.’ It was an extravagant gesture, but we can’t do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”

“She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.”

“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.”

“Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.”

“An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.”

“Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.”

“Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton”

“Considering the extravagance of my expectations, the flying experience was bound to be a disappointment.”

“The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.”

“We owe something to extravagance for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.”