Quotes About Preening

#1. Nothing so enchants attorneys general, their eyes generally fixed on higher public office, as slinging accusations against successful financial executives. Preening press conferences and fawning media coverage are virtually guaranteed, whether or not the charges have substance.

Kenneth Langone

#2. Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.

Terry Kay

#3. I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.

William H Gass

#4. Thanks for the rescue."
"Everyone needs a hobby."
"I thought yours was preening."
"Two hobbies.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'

Peter Capaldi

#6. Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

Maureen Dowd

#7. Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Julie Burchill

#8. Erik got to his feet, aware of her watching him, and tried not to preen at the frank admiration in her eyes. Preening was not manly.

Tiffany Snow

#9. She had to admit, she was impressed.
Not that she was going to commence praising on cue. The eagle in him was perfectly capable of preening his own feathers.

Thea Harrison

#10. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

Nicholas Monsarrat

#11. I found a dead body in the cucumber patch,' I told them.
'How very like you,' Ophelia said, and went on preening her eyebrows.

Alan Bradley

#12. Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.

George Will

#13. The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.

John Derbyshire

#14. It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

Tom DeLay

#15. Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock!

Katherine Givens

#16. Tell me, little ghost: do you enjoy my company?"
She was surprised. "Yes."
"I enjoy yours, too. I can see why you like me. I'm intelligent, charming - not to mention handsome."
"And skilled at preening. Let's not forget that.

Marie Rutkoski

#17. A Christian atmosphere is no protection against preening egos.

Philip Zaleski

#18. The walls were made of white stone, topped with preening angels

Richard Raley

#19. I'm about to turn you from a rooster to a hen, you preening little prick.

J.T. Geissinger

#20. Ven has chronic mouth-runs-faster-than-his-brain syndrome, as we all know, but none is better in a fight. I doubt he'd serve Atlantis so well as a preening bird.

Alyssa Day

#21. I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

Ann Patchett

#22. If you didn't have a real good imagination you'd probably think those noises were the sounds of some kid blowing a horn for the first time, but I knew better than that. I could tell those were the squeaks and squawks of one door closing and another one opening.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#23. don't lose a diamond while you're busy chasing glitter.

Unknown

#24. Sometimes advance is the best form of retreat.

Mark Lawrence

#25. The dead are noble, the living worthless.

Mo Yan

#26. When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.

Cary Fukunaga

#27. You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Alfred Jarry

#28. Not Eve:
Under any condition, in any situation, a mature woman does not need to be checked by her man. She is not childish, but fully capable of [a] self check if she respects the wisdom given to her by The Most High; her name ain't Eve.

T.F. Hodge

#29. Even the continents drift.

George Will

#30. Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.

Alex Chilton

#31. I feel very blessed to have had the opportunities that have already come. I want to pursue it as long as I can find characters that resonate with me and projects that resonate with me. I feel very comfortable in that world.

Sharlto Copley

#32. The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky.
"The empire is striking back," Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ.

Matthew Reilly

#33. ...the very, very old fae tended to go through an unhealthy stage of boredom that was often followed by a period of 'goin' doololly.

E.J. Stevens

#34. Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#35. The wind had a voice as it came over the waves, and it was sadder than the end.

Stephen Crane

#36. Things done imperfectly still bless our lives

Marla Cilley