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Quotes About Display

Joe did everything else properly, too—finished taking the head off, threw the body into the street for his friends to take away if he had any, for the scavengers to remove if not—then displayed the head in front of the shop on a spike meant for such purpose. Then he closed his shutters and cleaned up the mess—then may have taken time to throw up;
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Now begins The tenebrific passage of the tale: How hold a light, display the cavern's gorge? How, in this phase of the affair, show truth?
~ Robert Browning
those who make a show or display of innocence are the least innocent of all.
~ Robert Greene
Sorrow ought to be private, she thinks, not flaunted.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I'm told finance doesn't require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed. So it's more just advanced programming
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The Amex man had even lifted his wrist to his mouth to take down a note, in a gesture obviously meant to be seen:
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
doesn't require very complicated math. One guy told me that if you just designed a clean data display, people were amazed.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
And there by the pump stood a group of women with their hands under their aprons, watching the procession and discussing in hushed voices all this floral display and pomp.
~ Knut Hamsun
Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.
~ Bill O'Reilly
A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
I don't show off. I merely demonstrate my abilities at opportune times.
~ Derek Landy
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Rich people like to hostess, so they can show off their nice stuff. Tonight
~ Jennifer Egan
a display of teeth and a hint of joy or hilarity suggested the subject was 'plebeian, insane (or at least not in rational control) or else in the grip of some particularly powerful passion'.
~ Jennifer Higgie
She had never heard Artemis sound so warm, so sincere. Usually emotional displays were difficult for the boy and he stumbled through them awkwardly. This wasn't like him at all.
~ Eoin Colfer
It is one thing to put bread and wine away in a store-room, and quite another to eat them. What is eaten is digested and distributed around the body, to become sinews, flesh, bones, blood, a good complexion, sound breathing. What is stored away is ready at hand, to be sure, to be taken out and displayed whenever you wish, but you derive no benefit from it, except that of having the reputation of possessing it. [
~ Epictetus
Everyone's revving their engine, slapping their big metal dicks around so we can see how fast they're going to be. Of
~ Amy Lane
Finally there is "montage by attraction," the creation of S. M. Eisenstein, and not so easily described as the others, but which may be roughly defined as the reenforcing of the meaning of one image by association with another image not necessarily part of the same episode—for example the fireworks display in The General Line following the image of the bull.
~ André Bazin
My mom decided that she wanted to put the mirror ball trophy on the coffee table in the center of our living room. When people walk in, it's kind of like, 'Uh.' It's a little weird. Maybe we should put it in the corner or something.
~ Laurie Hernandez
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
~ Hannah Gadsby
It is well known I prefer to play through the middle, so when I get my opportunity, I just want to show what I can do.
~ Danny Welbeck
The entertainment is in the presentation.
~ John McTiernan
Even before I became an artist myself, I always cared about my presentation.
~ Fabolous
Cooking with a cast iron skillet is great because it can also be used for presentation! Simply prepare a delicious meal within it and display it on the table for all to enjoy.
~ Rachel Hollis