Prestonia Mann Martin Quotes

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

The richness and abundance of this great capital and its district is such as is indeed a wonder to behold: and it is for this reason that it bears the name of Samarkand: for this name would he more exactly written Semiz-kent, two words which signify ‘Rich-Town’.

In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.