Quotes About Flamboyance

#1. Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.

Steven Pinker

#2. The desperate resilience,the annoyed flamboyance;his personable passivity and his phobic aggressiveness; all trapped in the clever wrinkles of his fingers, the hard unsociable cast of his knuckles, the safe hopelessness of the pads.

Brandon Shire

#3. your irrational range
true suffering as flamboyance
as starving carnivore as disappearance

Will Alexander

#4. You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.

Don King

#5. It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Norman Mailer

#6. Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

Morrissey

#7. Bough of a tree to the rain ... he turns the phrase over in his mouth as if it were fine wine, trying to guess its vintage, realizing somewhat indifferently that it is beyond him.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#8. At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Michael Crichton

#9. There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.

Abraham Flexner

#10. We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

Joseph Joubert

#11. This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.

Ronald Biggs

#12. But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.

Paullina Simons

#13. When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arrived in Paris from the suburbs. At the time, I didn't talk much. I was very shy, so the bluff served me. I was telling people that I had no money, and that I knew how to make films, but I had no proof.

Leos Carax

#14. You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

Peter Maxwell Davies

#15. To follow your dream, your vision or your calling is part of the work of your hands, many people will benefit from it and it will make a difference in their lives. Follow that dream, that vision and that calling, it has your name on it. Follow it, make it happen and make a difference.

Euginia Herlihy

#16. When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.

Carine Roitfeld

#17. Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

Nick Hanauer

#18. The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

Owen Wilson

#19. Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Ernest Hemingway,