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Quotes About Flamboyance

To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.
~ Johnny Weir
your irrational range true suffering as flamboyance as starving carnivore as disappearance
~ Will Alexander
I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
~ Kate Winslet
Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.
~ Steven Pinker
Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
~ Adam Gopnik
The only way I can attract more attention is if I was towing a Spanish galleon full of half-naked cheerleaders with flare guns.
~ Richard Kadrey
Surgically augmented breasts and a large vocabulary are two things that come to mind when I contemplate that which is showy and of little value, but I'm certain that you can think of others. also
~ Ammon Shea
I can be a bit movement-orientated and flamboyant because, essentially, I'm a physical comedian.
~ Rhys Darby
Or, when we feel most insecure, we act flamboyantly or make crazy jokes to ensure that everyone's attention is on us.
~ Elaine N. Aron
That flair for living.
~ Sebastian Faulks
You realise that people do things differently to each other and, more and more, I realise that there's no right or wrong. You can be a pop star and singing cabaret, and the entertainment of it is your flamboyance, it is your attitude.
~ Ben Howard
It's better, really, to go out in a blaze. That's why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.
~ Michael Cunningham
I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
You get so worked up and flowery! You sound as if you were quoting something all the time!
~ Iris Murdoch
The art of making much show with little substance.
~ Macaulay
I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.
~ Roberto Cavalli
I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!
~ Ric Flair
He also dropped out of the scene and is no longer to be found among other flambeurs.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We design for a whole range of ages and body types, and we always have done. What's great about us is that the common thing that they all like is an accessible eccentricity of an accessible flamboyance, and I think the super thing about that, it isn't age-specific: you're not only dressing 25-year-olds; we're dressing women from 25 to 65+.
~ Giles Deacon
To die with style, live in the Baroque.
~ Umberto Eco
There was a flamboyance, a theatricality about him: his dark hair was perfectly silvered at the temples and there was a Byronic grandeur in his demeanour.
~ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
It's fun to have an over-the-top stage personality.
~ Erika Jayne
Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.
~ Richard Hammond
Purity. Serenity. Simplicity. Seclusion. All one's concentration and flamboyance and originality reserved for the grueling, exalted, transcendent calling. I looked around and I thought, This is how I will live.
~ Philip Roth