Offy Quotes

#1. More often than not in poetry I find difficulty to be gratuitous and show-offy and camouflaging, experimental to a kind of insane degree - a difficulty which really ignores the possibility of having a sensible reader.

Billy Collins

#2. I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'

Jude Law

#3. They seemed to read all the papers the school sent home, which I think is actually a little show-offy.

Anne Lamott

#4. Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.

Paul Vitz

#5. Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

Tom Peters

#6. There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

Lynsey Addario

#7. There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.

V.E Schwab

#8. If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.

Hendrik Poinar