Quotes About Conspicuous

On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.

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

I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but chose to ignore

White isn't just a neutral color. It is so pure and quiet. Bold and conspicuous and yet so inconspicuous as well.

Going unnoticed has never been my strong suit.

The Democratic Party and DNC have to be a very conspicuous face of the opposition to Donald Trump and all his divisiveness. At the same time, we have to communicate our, I think, positive and inclusive message to everyone.

In a landscape of whites and blacks, the most conspicuous person I saw was this man, my first Indian in the South, the owner-manager of a motel, a dot Indian with a caste mark on his forehead rather than a feather Indian. Motels, gas stations, convenience stores: they had a lock on them, and the first one stood for so many I was to find.

I was apprehensive for my being conspicuous: Ignacio was right—no gringos visible, either in cars or walking.

This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.

There are fashions in saying things just as there are fashions in clothes. You wear what other people are wearing not so much because it's attractive but so as not to be conspicuous; so you can go on bind yourself underneath without being noticed too much.

though I am still...exceedingly puzzled as to why our murderer should decide to draw almost inevitable attention to himself by wearing such a conspicuous pair of plimsolls and running around Burford for two and a half hours.

Only in Faerieland is a giant toad the less conspicuous choice.

There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.

You shall be distinguished overseas by your colourful plumage, graceful flight and beautiful songs. There are so many lovely features that will make you conspicuous among the flock.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Ferraris are lovely cars, but I just don't want to be seen in them.

garden hoes, there was a small but conspicuous headline.

Services rendered to a country in a diplomatic line can be known only to a few – if they are important and they become conspicuous they rather excite envy than gratitude.

the royal closet was clearly visible to many in the crowd, she must have stuck out like a dove among crows.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

A man with a beard, ordering a beer milk shake in a town where he wasn't known—they might call the police.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food

Many of us become walking self-caricatures at a certain point, and politicians can be particularly vulnerable, especially those who have maneuvered their very public lives as conspicuously as McCain. They tell and retell the same stories; things get musty. They engage in a lot of self-mythologizing,