Quotes About Display

Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

I have one closet that's just shoes. The woman go, 'Amen,' and the men go, 'Oh my God.' It's color-coordinated from the ceiling to the floor, from evening to casual.

The whole opportunity of being on 'Last Comic' gave me the chance to display me being funny on and off stage.

One time, I palmed some medicine balls, just because people wanted to see if I could do it.

Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

He didn't like the way the gown fastened at the back. He didn't mind displaying his wares, if he liked the other person and the time seemed right, but he did like the illusion at least that the act was voluntary.

The well-known Latin phrase—meaning "praise God"—was inscribed on the tip of the Washington Monument in script letters only one inch tall. On full display . . . and yet invisible to all. Laus

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

Bracelets, necklaces, anklets, finger-rings and ear-rings made the women of Sumeria, as recently in America, show-windows of their husbands' prosperity.10

God Appears & God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day

Now Gentry went to the big display unit, the projection table. "There are worlds within worlds," he said. "Macrocosm, microcosm.

Now Gentry went to the big display unit, the projection table. "There are worlds within worlds," he said. "Macrocosm, microcosm. We carried an entire universe across a bridge tonight, and that which is above is like that below.… It was obvious, of course, that such things must exist, but I'd not dared to hope.…

Since we are now down to our final two exhibits, Abraham Lincoln and moi

We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.

I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

The scene had been orchestrated for a display that would overpower the envoys; it did not help the visitors' nerves when Cesare's stern-faced bodyguards proceeded to lock the doors behind them.

"If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know. Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"

I find shaving in general an utter chore so even removing the hair on the body parts that are on display happens on the rarest of occasions.

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

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up.

Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop.

Human beings often display emotions they do not feel. And they often feel emotions they do not display.