Costly Quotes

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Acting changes the inner spirit. It`s fulfilling, but psychologically very costly. You can`t steal enough money in a lifetime to make up for the damage. I`m ashamed for the bitterness it created in me, but it exists. Even when you`re successful it`s hard to rise above it. It`s like a growth.

- George C. Scott

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you`re writing all the time. You`re collecting songs. I`ve had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

- Keith Urban

Actors today try to avoid comedy because if you write a comedy that`s not a success, the lack of success is immediately apparent because the audience is not laughing. A comedy is a big risk. This is a tremendously costly business and to put money into a picture that might not come off -- oh, that`s pretty risky.

- Cary Grant

The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure -- the costly, exacting mistress.

- Ingmar Bergman

It`s hard to find a way forward. When you`re 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

- James Taylor

If I were a thief, your belongings would be gone by now. Students leave all kinds of things lying around that are difficult and costly to replace.

- Linda Hunt

I`m carrying the ball a lot tighter to my rib cage and up a little higher. I take those turnovers last year to heart. Those turnovers were costly and this year I`m going to try my best to prevent them.

- Michael Pittman

There is great pressure to develop on the east side, ... We have to give developers something they can hang their hats on, otherwise it will be very costly and very difficult to get that land back.

- Tom Hamilton

They thought they could manufacture in China because the labor is cheap, but the unpredictability of bringing the product over has become more costly. You have to look at the whole supply chain.

- Mark Holmes

(The pact marks) a significant step in removing a large amount of PCBs from the Upper Hudson River, while at the same time obtaining from GE payment of millions of dollars in past and future costs related to this Superfund site, ... Through the agreement, we hope to avoid costly future litigation and expedite the PCB cleanup, improving the health and safety of the environment and the citizens of New York for generations to come.

- Kelly Johnson

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

- Daniel Berrigan

I expect it will be long and drawn out, exhaustive and costly.

- Stephen Jones

For a small carrier, the thing that might be good with rate regulation is that it prevents larger carriers from undercutting and provides us a way to remain competitive in the marketplace. A lot of carriers don`t like it because it`s an inconvenience and costly, but if you look at it from a consumer`s standpoint we have to be able to justify our rates to our consumers and that`s the bottom line.

- Howard Lee

The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn`t enough critical reporting about it and that`s why it`s gotten out of hand.

- David Talbot

We`re trying to target the increases to things that are extra hard and extra costly to do.

- James Webb

(These CEOs) are rewarded for decisions that may help the corporate bottom line, but at the same time are very costly for U.S. workers and communities.

- Sarah Anderson

Peace is costly, but it is worth the expense.

- Adam Gill

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

- Akira Sasaki

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

- Alfred Kugal

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

- Alice Maria Gomes

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

- Aly Byorick

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

- Andre Parker

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.

- Andrew Beard

We made a business decision to settle this matter, without admitting or denying any wrongdoing, to enable our firm to move forward without the uncertainty and distraction of costly and protracted litigation in Arizona,

- Andy Brunner

Everyone wants to see the real Africa before it is all gone - nature lovers, photographers, adventurers; but travel is getting so costly, few people can afford such a trip. Thats why we decided to sweeten the deal by adding international airfare. Now we have something nobody can resist. A real winner

- Arun Kejriwal

(Going to Division II would be costly, Moore said. The NAIA limit on football scholarships is 24, Moore said, while it`s 36 the Division II level. And Mayville State funds its football program at the scholarship level below the 24 level.) We`re at the bottom in terms of scholarships, ... And we`d have to add two sports. We have eight sports now, and 10 are required in Division II. There are other costs, too.

- Aubrey Jewett

I think tomorrow I`m going to take the bike out and leave the truck at home, ... because it`s too costly to be driving around all over.

- Austin Craley

We didn`t play like we are capable of. We are a young football team and we will keep working on our mistakes. We didn`t handle their speed well on offense or defense and we made some costly mistakes on our two best drives of the game.

- Barbara Semedo

Morality is a private and costly luxury

- Henry Brooks Adams