Quotes of: Conspicuously Keyword

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.

Tim Gunn

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

James Reston

The virtue of humility is conspicuous only in its' absence.

L.F.Linnenkamp

Richard felt about as conspicuous as a foreskin at a Jewish nudist camp.

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Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

Tim Jackson

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Murray N. Rothbard

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Tony Conrad

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Walter Bagehot

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Alice Meynell

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

Richard Eyre

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Lascelles Abercrombie

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

Bob Kane

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Carl Andre

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

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