Quotes About Display

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

I still have my first 'Black Lightning' that I got way back in the day, and my first 'Steel.' And I proudly display those comics, by the way. I have a lot of comics, but those are among the ones that mean the most to me.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

This is going to be the best display in the whole city! . . . Give me another string." Coleman handed it up. "But why do we have to go through all this work if we're just going to take it all down in a couple weeks?" "Because that's the true meaning of Christmas. Running up the December electric bill." Serge draped another strand over a palm frond.

the true collector's only home is his own museum.

it was all nothing, a wonderful display of nothingness. At the same time a display. A display! a display! a display!

Look at all those stars. God has fireworks on display all the time, doesn't He?

Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter's home.

Well, if you don't want me to show you affection in public-" "Do," he interrupted. "Please. Touch me. All the time. All ways.

Here is an unbroken space in which a woman and a man may with the full sanction of society, practically make love to each other with their eyes, their fleeting touch, and the display of their bodies. Emblem of marriage, indeed.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

He unrolls names like a splendid carpet.

architecture is an art of the mind that will display in front of the eyes from others which can satisfy their needs

Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.

We didn't do this sort of emotional display. We did temper and sarcasm. Anything beyond temper and sarcasm was virgin territory.

The music industry the last 120 years has been insane. It's just continual chaos. So it's not unusual that something like the Internet comes around, but as one door closes another one opens, and that certainly is the case where now, artists can have a lot of control over how they display to the world, all at once, their new record.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

To me, when you decorate your home with just one store, it looks like that - it looks like a catalog.

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.