Preening Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
— Julie Burchill
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People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening.
— Jack Handey
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Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty…
— Terry Kay
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When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall…
— William Jacob Holland
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It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who…
— Tom DeLay
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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills…
— Warren Buffett
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress.…
— Ann Patchett
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Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think there's something contemptible…
— Mark Steyn
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Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying…
— Maureen Dowd
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Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can…
— Philip Roth
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[Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.†Ella fluttered to the…
— Rick Riordan
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You both passed out,†Percy said. “I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?†“Sharing,†Ella…
— Rick Riordan
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Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at…
— George Will
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I kid you not, the second she hears the distant click of a paparazzi long lens, that bitch starts posin'! She's kicking out her butt,…
— Michelle Trachtenberg
Who Wrote These Preening Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Preening Quotes as follows: