There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Aioli is jazzy, showy, and a downright attention hog next to chill and classic mayo. — Sohla El-Waylly Copy Share Image
We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics... — La Meri Copy Share Image
Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial: they abide… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers;… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“He was like a lot of Warmbloods, massive and showy and a bit of a dumb jock...” — Astrid Amara Copy Share Image
It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve,… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
