Quotes of: Show Keyword

The circus is the perfect business right now because parents want their kids to be kids and not Charley Bucket drinking cabbage soup all day.

The Nobody Show

The world of literature is a sacred mirror that shows not the reality around us but the dreams and fears that reality stimulates: It’s not where we live, but life itself.

Only Breath

You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them

The Kitchen God's Wife

Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.

The Little Fishes

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Les Misérables

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

Life of Pi

Stop walking with a ‘calendar’. It’s capable of ruining your fate, by showing you the date & limiting your courage, by reminding you of your age.

Life Simplified!

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

The leader’s job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can’t tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!

Leaders' Watchwords

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.

The Last Watch

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Scattered Poems

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

The Stone Raft

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

The Solitary Summer

Politics is all about showing you have integrity—and hiding the fact that you really don’t have any.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

Tomorrow night I’m giving a lecture on silence and invisibility. Don’t be surprised if I don’t show up.


Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I'm not just one flavor. You're not either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world.

Starstruck

It's all me. I'm not just one flavor. You're not, either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world.

Starstruck

We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.

A Tale for the Time Being

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

Oliver Twist