Quotes About Showboating

#1. I win by taking risks. By standing out. Mom hates how I ride Tucker right past the judge as many times as possible in a class. She says it's showboating and it's tacky. Some judges don't like it. Long ago, though, I decided I'd rather win being me than lose by playing it safe.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#2. Some were drawn towards displays of physical showboating, when it came to cats, while others preferred subtle intellectual stimulation.

Tom Cox

#3. I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

Daryl Hall

#4. Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

Art Spander

#5. If we don't understand bad writing, we can't understand good writing. Bad writing is characterized by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance. Good writing is exactly the opposite. Bad writing draws attention to the writer himself.

Anis Shivani

#6. I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#7. Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

Alison Moyet

#8. And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

Liev Schreiber

#9. And how that lady Suz was all wrong: art is not all about chaos, about taking things apart. True art, Emma will tell them, is about finding a way to make what's broken whole.

Jennifer McMahon

#10. Though we sometimes suspect that people are hiding things from us, it is not until we are in love that we feel an urgency to press our inquiries, and in seeking answers, we are apt to discover the extent to which people disguise and conceal their real lives.

Alain De Botton

#11. The liquid inside was pitching and rolling, like there was a storm inside the tiny capsule.

Rachel Hawkins

#12. English people don't like to be told 'enjoy your meal'. They will enjoy their meal if they feel like enjoying it. It is advisable not to command them such things in case they have other plans with their meal, such as preferring to dislike it.

Angela Kiss

#13. I know you got your heart broken but I know the heart can heal, too. And I know what it feels like to love again. I love you so much, I can't sleep at night. Sometimes I forget to breathe. And in a hundred years, that's never going to change.

Susan Wiggs

#14. The value of a person's life is measured by the amount of people they touch in living it.

Scott Hildreth

#15. While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Clara Barton

#16. Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all

Hudson Taylor

#17. I'll miss you, too. More than you know, he breathes.

E.L. James