Top 100 Quotes About Showing Off
#1. Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
Dylan Moran
#2. I don't remember; I was in a rage haze. Also I was showing off, which can be at the very least embarrassingly transparent and at the very worst
Amy Poehler
#3. Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'
Greg Proops
#4. Fruit ... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"
Dylan Moran
#5. I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.
James Hetfield
#6. The beaded purple top scooped low, showing off quite a bit of cleavage. And by quite a bit, I mean holy hell balls, that's a lot of boobage.
Cindi Madsen
#7. I remember going with my parents to weddings where the women would arrive covered in black veils, but underneath, they'd be wearing the most exquisite brightly colored Dolce & Gabbana suits. They were like peacocks showing off their tails.
Huma Abedin
#8. For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.
Ted Allen
#9. I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.
Zhang Xin
#10. The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.
Amiri Baraka
#11. When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.
Mae Jemison
#12. If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
J.D. Salinger
#13. The pants come down. Most look shamefaced, but tha Arthur McBride is not the least bit shy about showing off his equipment, oh no, he isn't. He grins in my direction. 'Not all that impressive, boyo
L.A. Meyer
#14. Briony said reasonably, 'How can you hate plays?'
'It's just showing off.' Pierrot shrugged as he delivered this self-evident truth.
Ian McEwan
#15. Sword fighting is not a dance, not in battle. You save all that showing off for the duels if you want to. In battle, when you kill, kill quickly, and be ready for the next enemy to come at you. One strike should be all it takes. It's all you'll get
G.R. Matthews
#16. I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.
Vladimir Potanin
#17. I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.
Prabal Gurung
#18. When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. Mommy, God's really showing off today!
Beth Moore
#19. If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.
Woody Guthrie
#20. Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.
Woody Guthrie
#21. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous, rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc., etc.
Anne Frank
#22. If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
Mark Twain
#23. I was like a little boy showing off my toys, desperate to win approval.
P.D. James
#24. You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.
Charles Dance
#25. She looks like a fucking wet dream sitting on that bike. Her legs are covered in tight denim with black boots laced up to mid-calf. She has a leather jacket on and it's zipped up half way, showing off a good amount of cleavage.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#26. I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.
Mark Billingham
#27. As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower ... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.
Miyamoto Musashi
#28. The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.
Jerry Hall
#29. That's enough. You can stop now: the phrase Sedgwick said she longed to hear whenever she was suffering. (Enough hurting, enough showing off, enough achieving, enough talking, enough trying, enough writing, enough living.)
Maggie Nelson
#30. Opening up the Capitol dome and giving the public a look at the inner workings of Congress - however messy they may be - certainly won't be pretty. But trust isn't earned by showing off only your Sunday best. The dirty laundry has to be aired, too.
Mike Quigley
#31. Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
Mark Haddon
#33. I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam - you're a guru, ready for your groupies.
Edward Vilga
#34. You can't trust a guy showing off more cleavage than you.
Lindsey Leavitt
#35. Child's evidence is always the best evidence there is. I'd rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children can't stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they don't know. They're at their best when they're showing off.
Agatha Christie
#36. Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
Pope Francis
#37. Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee
#38. I am not showing off. I am just being expressive!
Nelson Jack
#39. We need arrogant people who like showing off.
They can cover us from bullets in the line of fire.
Toba Beta
#40. Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.
Dolph Ziggler
#41. I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'
Jenny Eclair
#43. I want to kill that daimon all over again.
Aiden smiled then. A real one, showing off those deep dimples ... "It was kinda hot how you popped out of nowhere and owned her."
"I need a shirt that says, I owned her.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#44. What are you boys up to?" "Zane was showing off for me," Ty said with a smile. "I was trying to teach him how to rope." "I can't imagine he'll learn much, way he was staring at you." Ty looked away, but even the hot summer sun couldn't mask the blush creeping over the man. Harrison
Abigail Roux
#45. A car's not the right place for showing off to a girl - the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#46. First of all, I don't think they have to go that high. That is not necessary, to be that high in the air. I think they're showing off, those pilots. I think we could just go really fast just a few feet off the ground. Just high enough to miss the animals.
Ellen DeGeneres
#47. Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.
Lauryn Hill
#48. Gave him my best I'm-pissed-at-you face, but the jerk grinned back at me, showing off his dimples. Those two dents in his cheeks got to me every damned time I saw them.
Aileen Erin
#49. The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents - because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
Frank Zappa
#50. showing off is the fools's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee
#51. The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off
Ibn Taymiyyah
#52. Instinctively it is the small things that make the biggest of differences.Men of a certain type are about showing off and the grand gestures.The gesture tends to overwhelm the meaning behind it.
K.J. Kilton
#53. Good Health At the busstop a swarm of youngsters crowded on board. Loaded down with books and notebooks and other stuff, they filled the bus with nonstop chatter and laughter. Talking all at once, shouting, pushing, showing off, they laughed at anything and everything.
Eduardo Galeano
#54. I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.
Daryl Hall
#55. Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work on his tan? Mimi wondered.
Melissa De La Cruz
#56. Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.
Chetan Bhagat
#57. our mission does not consist in our appearance, a beautiful haircut or in showing off our body, decorations and clothes
Sunday Adelaja
#58. Pushing himself off the bed in a violent thrust, his lats widen like wings down his sides, where his waistcoat is open halfway to his waist to accommodate muscular builds, he indicates the gilded cage with outstretched arms. Showing off his supreme musculature, he says, We have forever Phoebe.
Poppet
#59. Because I'm such a tomboy, I hate showing off my body.
Brooklyn Decker
#60. The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
Andre Gide
#61. I'd much rather hear someone's unique interpretation of their own experience. Those who negate or override someone else's experience in order to one-up them or to show off their own knowledge or perceived abilities are in truth showing off their lack of listening skills and wisdom.
Tonya Sheridan
#62. Human?' The girl cocked her head the other way. I caught a glimpse of pink gills under her chin. 'My sisters told me stories of humans. They said they sometimes sing to them to lure them underwater.' She grinned, showing off her sharp needle-teeth. 'I've been practicing. Want to hear?
Julie Kagawa
#63. I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#64. Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.
Bert Jansch
#65. What the fuck are you laughing at, Godfrey?" Johnson moved away from Day.
"You, daddy's boy."
"Fuck you. I know Day is just showing off for you." Johnson turned back to look at Day. "I'll be sure to catch you when you're alone."
"I'll be sure to have my rape whistle," Day retorted.
A.E. Via
#66. Basic survival goods are cheap, whereas narcissistic self-stimulation and social-display products are expensive. Living doesn't cost much, but showing off does.3 For
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#67. Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.
Al-Shafi'i
#68. The angel's lower body was covered by a pair of faded jeans that showcased the strong muscles in his thighs ... along with a few other things she'd only dared dream about. His upper body was bare, showing off honeyed skin, washboard abs, and a killer set of pecs.
Rosalie Lario
#70. Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).
Omar Suleiman
#71. Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.
Woody Guthrie
#72. The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.
Tina Fey
#73. I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.
Virat Kohli
#74. If he expects me to talk for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself to the wrong person.
Charlotte Bronte
#75. I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
Richie Sambora
#76. I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
Kirk Hammett
#77. The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little.
Kate Elliott
#78. Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.
Dan Quayle
#79. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
#80. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!
Prince Royce
#81. You can be edgy without showing off your boobs.
Hilary Duff
#82. Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.
Joel Edgerton
#83. (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen
Anonymous
#84. I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
Imtiaz Ali
#85. Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
Denis Leary
#86. Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.
Anne Frank
#87. The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.
David Niven
#88. 'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.
Michel De Montaigne
#89. Luna! Artemis! lovers' spats are icing on the cake! Your just showing off to us single people! -Minako
Naoko Takeuchi
#90. What fun is life without a bit of showing off?
Matt Lucas
#92. Italian drivers: "...he drove as if he were at the wheel of a Ferrari at Monza. Like all drivers, he insisted on showing off his skills.
Michele Guittari
#93. I'll give you this: you're really showing off your amazing sucking skills. I bet you'd be great at BJ's.
Laura Thalassa
#94. Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
Jane Fonda
#95. Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.
Rachel Maddow
#96. I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good on my resume. And these marble hallways are such great places for meeting boys and showing off my outfits.
Jessica Cutler
#97. He's not pointing to anybody, he's showing off how high he can count!
Bobby Heenan
#98. The after-school specials of my youth seemed to be dedicated to exploring just these ideas. They brought us the mean boy who really just wanted to be included and the know-it-all girl who was showing off at school to hide her misery over her parents' recent divorce.
Brene Brown
#99. Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It's about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.
John Spence
#100. That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
Jacqueline McKenzie
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