Top 100 To Show Quotes
#1. That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.
Dennis Eckersley
#2. Being an executive producer allows me the opportunity to create original content, and I can't wait to show my fans what we have in store on 'Kocktails with Khloe.'
Khloe Kardashian
#3. I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.
J.K. Rowling
#4. He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
Anne Frank
#5. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
Gary Zukav
#6. Personally I am always looking for God to show me where He would like me to give or make a difference in someone else's life. I wake up every day and ask God how He would like me to be a blessing to someone that day.
Joyce Meyer
#7. Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.
Anthony Anderson
#8. It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.
Mark Forsyth
#9. Somehow it was harder to show all that emotional stuff to someone you knew.
Jojo Moyes
#10. Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
William Davenant
#11. Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
Ang Lee
#12. Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.
Terry Teachout
#13. I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
#14. Science fiction is not about the future. Like all other fiction, it is about the present. It simply uses different techniques to show us who we are, who we might be, and whom we ought to become.
Orson Scott Card
#15. You don't know what kind of girl I am." "I know precisely the kind of woman you are, Daisy. And if you don't understand it, then it'll be up to me to show it to you.
Kristen Ashley
#16. As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.
Tahir Shah
#17. Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family.
Rick Smolan
#18. I bring the girl to a museum, try to show her a little culture, and she turns a Chihuly into a giant phallus.
Nicki Elson
#19. To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain
#20. Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too ... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
Binyavanga Wainaina
#22. I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.
Simon Neil
#23. We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
Paul Bremer
#24. You never know how much another person loves you until you give them the chance to show you.
Monica Beaky
#26. Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
Edgar Lee Masters
#27. Marriage is hard work, and you have to show up in hard hat and boots every day of every year.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#28. If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.
William James
#29. It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.
Gina Philips
#30. [My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.
Joel Sartore
#31. But my biggest joy and best education and proudest achievement has been being able to show up for work and life and not cause too much trouble a day at a time in spite of my hysterical, somewhat dramatic, nature.
Mark Vonnegut
#32. John Kerry said today he wants to debate President Bush once a month. Hey good luck, if Bush couldn't make it to the National Guard once a month, he's not going to show up for this.
Jay Leno
#33. Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the subject line, 'I'm begging.' Because what better way to show you're a strong leader than acting like you're drunk and dialing your ex?
Jimmy Fallon
#34. Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.
Raven-Symone
#35. I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.
Ron Dellums
#36. Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.
Jennifer Carpenter
#37. I suppose building a healthy family is possible. Maybe what children really need is simple. Maybe they just need somebody to show them it's okay to be human.
Donald Miller
#38. It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.
John Flanagan
#39. I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
Daryl Hall
#40. When a team has to work over a weekend, make a high priority of being there as well, even if it's just to stop by and buy them a meal to show your appreciation.
Scott Weiss
#41. That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.
Terry Pratchett
#42. I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff.
Jennifer Sky
#43. Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
Vicente Fox
#44. Jeez, what did he think I was, a lust demon? I wanted Logan to show me how to use his sword, not show me how to use his man sword.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#45. You must be very secure in your masculinity to parade around in those budgie smugglers."
"Oh, I'm very secure." He see-sawed the towel over his back. "And I'm happy to show you the rear view of my budgie smugglers - oh wait - you already saw it when you were checking out my ass.
Tracey Alvarez
#46. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
James Badge Dale
#47. When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real things instead of making objects which represent ideas and closing them up in cupboards.
Maria Montessori
#48. Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.
RuPaul
#49. It's important for me to win the fight, but it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is to show people who spend their hard-earned money that they can be entertained by the way I fight.
Manny Pacquiao
#50. But I want to show Hazel Grace the basement," Augustus said. "Just Hazel," I said. "So show Just Hazel the basement," said his dad.
John Green
#51. We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.
David Fincher
#52. Her mouth was open, as if she wanted to say something, and I wanted to kiss her to show her that sometimes you don't need words. Sometimes they only get in the way, and you end up talking yourself out of things you need. People you want.
Rachel Vincent
#53. Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot of things, and I keep seeing this brocade of voice where someone is trying to be too pally with you or ingratiating on the page.
Teju Cole
#54. Of course, now I had to show I was worthy, but I didn't feel at all concerned. I would do whatever it took to get there. I didn't share my feelings of pride with anybody. My style was to keep moving and not reflect too much. But it felt great.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#55. All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
George Foreman
#56. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
Fred Allen
#57. If I burn the candles, it means not only giving you light. It means to show you the fire which I have inside.
Gaurav GRV Sharma
#58. Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
Joseph Epstein
#59. I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
Anurag Kashyap
#60. For future Snowdens, we want to show there is an organization that will do what we did for Snowden - as much as possible - in raising money for legal defense and public advocacy for whistleblowers so they know if they come forward there is a support group for them.
Sarah Harrison
#61. The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.
Yoko Ono
#62. Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.
Solange Nicole
#65. The compasses are disappointingly true, pointing north over and over, when all he wants is for one to dissent, to demur, to show him the new direction he cannot find on his own.
Matt Bell
#66. If you get excited about something, it's totally okay to show it.
Jenna Elfman
#67. This was a smokescreen. Morrie made that obvious. Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.
Anonymous
#68. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
Gretchen Rubin
#69. How did I know you were going to show up?"
"Because you're psychic now?"
Dylan raised an eyebrow at that. "If I was actually psychic, sweetheart, I probably wouldn't have
gotten involved with you."
"Oh, ow," he said, grabbing his chest. "I think you just made my heart hurt.
Andrea Speed
#70. Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off
Dylan Moran
#71. We've found that trusting people to do the right thing generally results in them doing the right thing. Allowing people to reward one another facilitates a culture of recognition and service, and is a way to show employees that they should be thinking like owners rather than serfs.
Laszlo Bock
#72. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.
Russ Ramsey
#73. I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!
Bobby Fischer
#74. People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.
Marlo Thomas
#75. There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Joseph Roux
#76. Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.
Nayvadius Cash
#77. Religion now has degenerated and it has turned into a wolf; it has opened its mouth to show his ugly teeth; its spreading fear instead of love; and science has hidden in a corner like a lamb, trembling with fear!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.
Jason Mraz
#79. Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
Rosalynn Carter
#80. Herein Moses was a type of Christ, who stands between God and man, to show us the word of the Lord, a blessed days-man, that has laid his hand upon us both, so that we may both hear from God and speak to him without trembling.
Matthew Henry
#81. Homo sentimentalis [ ... ] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.
Milan Kundera
#82. You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family
Sunday Adelaja
#83. I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.
Vladimir Kramnik
#84. When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
Todd Solondz
#85. God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.
Thomas More
#86. Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.
Michael Scott
#87. The last thing that you need to fret about is my feeling emasculated, Kitten; but talk is cheap, so I'll be sure to show you later." ~Bones
Jeaniene Frost
#88. One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
Russell Banks
#89. Sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
Cecelia Ahern
#90. There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.
Julia Quinn
#91. I think it's fair to say I am a writer. I'm using this journal to get better: to hone my skills, to collect details and observations. To show don't tell and all that other writerly crap.
Gillian Flynn
#92. I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.
Rob Bell
#93. Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
Fiona Apple
#94. As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.
Dan Colen
#95. I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.
Thomas De Maiziere
#96. Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.
Dave Barry
#97. I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.
Dane DeHaan
#98. Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.
Bruce Cockburn
#99. Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.
Ashton Kutcher
#100. Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me.
Jim Butcher
