Quotes About Display

People were expensive; the way to display, or to enjoy, great wealth was to build an environment that could only have been wrought, and could only be sustained from one hour to the next, by unceasing human effort.

People were expensive; the way to display, or to enjoy, great wealth was to build an enviornment that could only have been wrought, and could only be sustained from one hour to the next, by unceasing human effort.

There were two display windows, one on each side of the door, and in the windows were…well, books. What this street really needed was a bar.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left.

I try to show myself at Liverpool, and when I come to the national team, I try to show myself in training or in games.

It's French," she said. "They designed it like a zoo—you know, keep 'em in, but give everyone a good look at 'em...

Then Raghu's son, as if in sport, Before the thousands of the court, The weapon by the middle raised That all the crowd in wonder gazed.

The pants come down. Most look shamefaced, but tha Arthur McBride is not the least bit shy about showing off his equipment, oh no, he isn't. He grins in my direction. 'Not all that impressive, boyo

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisition.

It was Will who broke the silence. "Very well. You have me alone in the corrider-" "Yes, yes," said Tessa impatiently,"and thousands of women all over England would pay handsomely for the privilege of such an opportunity. Can we put aside the display of your wit for a moment? This is important.

She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display.

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.

Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around the world that its power was constrained by neither law nor ethics, neither morality nor the Constitution: look what we can do and will do to those who impede our agenda.

indifferent to his manly display. With her free hand, she scooped up his discarded sword belt and heaved it down the hill, where it tangled

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

What we were showing was very futuristic," Neale says. So futuristic no one visiting the enchanted forest realized the display was still a fantasy. None of the machines actually worked on Mobitex yet. The terminals were wired into a computer simulating radio transmissions.

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Amusement always means putting things out of mind, forgetting suffering, even when it is on display. At its root is powerlessness.