Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Terry PratchettTag: show-off
The Puffer Fish: Wherein the author flaunts his vocabulary.
His father was IRA and his mother was Quebecois, and they had reliquished their mortal coils in the internecine conflagration that ended their conjoined separatist movement, IRA-Q. The appellation he was given by his progenitors was Ray O'Vaque ("Like the battery," he'd elucidate, with an adamantine stare that proscribed any mirth). In his years of incarceration, however, he had earned the sobriquet "Uncle Milty" for his piscine amatory habits.
He had been emancipated from the penitentiary for three weeks, and now his restless peregrinations had conveyed him to this liminal place, seeking compurgation in the permafrost of the hyperborean tundra, which was an apt analogue of the permafrost in his heart. He insinuated himself into the caravansary with nugatory expectations, which were confirmed by the exiguous provisions for comfort. But then the bartender looked up from laving the begrimed bar, his eyes growing luminous as he ejactulated, "Milt!
We need arrogant people who like showing off.
They can cover us from bullets in the line of fire.
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess."
- Ch. 5
Tag: show-off
Rookies tend to show off.
Toba BetaThe better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert HandTag: self-esteem confidence self show-off
Wow..is there anything you can't do?
Toba BetaTag: show-off
I've seen you around. You liken yourself a bad ass, and darlin', you are. Minus the bad.
Donna Lynn HopeIf you want to call attention to your good deed then it isn't a good deed, it's a self-serving one. Why? Not only have you patted yourself on the back but you're fishing for others to do the same.
Donna Lynn HopeTag: generosity good-deeds show-off
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
Rita Mae BrownTag: opportunities reason opportunity comics comedy comedy-humor showing-off reasons comic-books humor-inspirational comic show-off sense-of-humor show-offs opportunity-temptation jared-wheat
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