We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. . . We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.
Your trees must be tended; if you can afford it, you owe it to them. I don't buy expensive plants; if I am extravagant in any way it is in the care of my garden.
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.
Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
. . . . shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous. . . I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Extravagant love is never wasted.
The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.
God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth
I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.
Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.
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.
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.
The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.