Showy Quotes

Yellow, blue and black -- the glittery things, you know, shiny, showy things. I hated it before, this time I had to work on it, this kind of feeling. - Issey Miyake

White flowering dogwoods will add year-round beauty to your home. Dogwoods have showy spring flowers, scarlet autumn foliage and red berries that attract songbirds. - John Rosenow

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift. - Hector Hugh Munro

We tried to experiment with new things like always. This season we tried to make them understated and not showy, much more discrete, and what the people are expecting these days. - Gil Dufour

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers. - Henry Walter Bates

The idea of the trail is to not only see some showy blossoms but to also see some nice areas of the county. Those you can see all year round. - Maxwell Norton

The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath. - Louis Auchincloss

Some of them started getting showy and that's how the stereotype started. - Cindy Green

Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it. - Charles Caleb Colton

Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it. - Dennis Muren