The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.
Making movies is like a circus. You get together for a finite amount of time and you build the most extravagant thing you can, which requires teamwork. Most people don't know, but when you see something on screen, it looks perfect. If you go behind the scenes, things are very archaic. You only see the front of the building, not the back.
I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and this can be terrifying. I know, because I was a daughter of a mother with a changeable temperament.
God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth
I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.
I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.
I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.
Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.
A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.
