Showiest Quotes & Sayings

And to forget one's own sharp absurd little personality, reputation and the rest of it, one should read; see outsiders; think more; write more logically; above all be full of work; and practise anonymity. Silence in company; or the quietest statement, not the showiest; is also "medicated" as the doctors say. It was an empty party, rather, last night. Very nice here, though. — Virginia Woolf

I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers. — Sandra Cisneros

Looking feminine is important to me. My personal style is fairly traditional. I was definitely influenced by my mother, who always looks elegant, and by Estee's classic style; she was always in Givenchy or Ungaro. — Aerin Lauder

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone. — Billy Joel

Everyone knows how creative the Scots are.
They're always sculpting, painting, singing songs, & writing plays.
They invented television, the telephone, & deep-fried Mars bars. — David Baillie

Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom. — George R R Martin

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. — Roh Moo-hyun

A sack that can contain a person's greed ... doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough. — Seo Do-young

Time can tick when there is no clock. — Anne Rice

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. — Vartan Gregorian

I wanted a Fakahatchee ghost orchid, in full bloom, maybe attached to a gnarled piece of custard apple tree, and I wanted its roots to spread as broad as my hand and each root to be only as wide as a toothpick. I wanted the bloom to be snow-white, white as sugar, white as lather, white as teeth. I knew its shape by heart, the peaked face with the droopy mustache of petals, the albino toad with its springy legs. It would not be the biggest or the showiest or the rarest or the finest flower here, except to me, because I wanted it. — Susan Orlean

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. — John Desmond Bernal

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen. — Mark Twain

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare. — Daniel Dennett

I've never taken a job on anything I didn't want to do. — Tony Gilroy

He swallows. Snow has the longest neck and the showiest swallow I've ever seen. His chin juts out and his Adam's apple catches - it's a whole scene. — Rainbow Rowell