Peacocking Quotes

#1. When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

Bradford Cox

#2. The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.

Rosa Montero

#3. Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)

Keith Ablow

#4. The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#5. Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.

Fannie Flagg

#6. If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.

Mark Leibovich

#7. It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Claire Denis

#8. The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.

Bauvard

#9. I really don't know what "I love you" means.
I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Neil Gaiman

#10. No, I like it ... a lot ... but that's a helluva tattoo for a virgin."
He popped the pen back in, freeing up his hand to move the mouse.
I smirked. "If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right."
The pen fell from Trenton's mount to the floor.

Jamie McGuire

#11. The ability to throw 100 mph cannot be taught, cannot be learned, it can only be God-given.

Vin Scully

#12. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?

Ruskin Bond

#13. If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

John Haynes Holmes

#14. There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

Stanislaw Leszczynski