I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.