Top 66 Flashy Quotes

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

When you’re younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it’s flashy, it’s shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.

I’ve never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.

Being independent isn’t as flashy as a lot of people may think. It’s a lot of hard work; its a lot of investing your own money. And to creatively time to make your day work – it’s on you to make it work, and no one else.

I would study the best, the most flashy, the guys that had that flair, the guys that had that wow. I’d study those fighters, and I made up my mind that I’d be all of those at once.

I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn’t going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?

A lot of kids, when they get to 18 or 19, they start getting flashy and forgetting about the real basics of being a professional footballer.

It’s easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you’re – your technique is so much more exposed because there’s not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.

I don’t consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.

‘The Falling’ was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn’t think anything would come of it.

When I tell people I played with Giannis they don’t remember it as much because I played with him in the first two years of his career, so he was not as flashy.

I don’t see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it’s unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

I don’t like all these flashy cities like L.A. or Miami. I don’t know if I could be the same player if I played in those cities.

There’s nothing historically in my life very flashy. I’m not exceptionally beautiful. I’m not exceptionally wealthy.

Yeah, I consider myself an unpredictable player. A player that’s flashy here and there and then is maybe conservative here and there and I think when it comes to dressing, it’s me figuring out that balance of when to be flashy or when to be super simple with maybe flashy shoes.

I like big, flashy production and videos.

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, ‘Why? Mine works, doesn’t it? It’s a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.’

There’s this working-class guilt – you don’t want to be flashy.

Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don’t have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They’re out there. It’s harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.

I don’t consider myself a flashy director. A lot of times, people will look and don’t even know what I do.

I dress kind of flashy.

I’ve never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.

I got simple tastes. Don’t go in for all that flashy business.

A lot of U.K. wrestlers are very good at chain wrestling, telling a story through holds, while American wrestling is a little more flashy, with lots of high-spots.

My first tape was ‘Hey, I can do what y’all do.’ It’s new, flashy, and not through rap. It was a guy singing how cool he was. I’m here with big bro Drake; I’m his little gunner.

I don’t love cinematography that’s very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film; it becomes sort of self-reflective.

People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they’re not, really.

I may not raise my voice a lot, I may not be very flashy, but I like to interact with people.

I’ve always liked the simplicity of the Black Panther costume. I’ve never liked when people give him flashy capes and other adornments.

Basically I didn’t get a ton of attention as a kid. I guess that’s why I’m such a flashy lunatic.

You see someone on the street wearing an outfit and then it’s on the cover of a magazine. I love. But, you know, I’m Australian, so I’m not too flashy or glitzy.

I’m not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody’s in front of me. That’s the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it’s a wide-open dunk, I’ve never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.

I can’t deal with someone flashy. That’s so not me.

I’ve often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

I like to pick one piece that pops against everything else. I like flashy shirts, or I’ll wear a simple shirt with a fancy tie. I also like vintage pieces, more stand-out ones.

Everybody’s got their ways of doing things and for me I’ve got to stay fresh, fly and flashy. So I’m going to make sure I’m fresh, fly and flashy in the ring too.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

I don’t like flashy things.

There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I’m better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.

Those who know me know I’m not a person who has a flashy lifestyle.

I like being boring to a certain extent. I don’t have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it’s over, I don’t have to be that.

One of the things I don’t like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It’s kind of bullying – it’s very big, it’s very flashy, it’s got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture.

You know, I’m Australian, so I’m not too flashy or glitzy… I’ve stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that’s the most important thing.

I’m not the flashy guy with the neck tattoos trash talking your head off.

When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won’t miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the ‘Eventocracy.’ All this flashy ‘art-fair art’ and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.

I’m not, you know, the guy with the biggest game or the flashy shots. But, you know, just being steady, playing every points like it really matters, I think has been working.

I think my game isn’t very flashy, but the test of time for the position of quarterback is how fast can you get the ball out of your hands to the right guy? And I think I do that better than everyone else.

I hate flashy metrosexual men. I prefer a rustic man who will make a long-time companion.

Houston is a place where you have to be the best. Everybody gotta be flashy, flashy. It’s not like a gaudy thing, but people definitely put on their best dressed even if they go into Wal-Mart.

I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I’m not going to do anything that’s extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

Nas is one of my favorite rappers because you don’t get any of that flashy stuntin’; you get the real, just raw bars. The way he tells stories and his vibe, I think we would make great music together.

I don’t try to be nothing I’m not. I’m not flashy. I’m just me.

You can be a champion and you can be flashy with money and cars but you have a big platform. What are you trying to change?

Hoods are good parts because they’re always flashy and attract attention. If you’ve got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

We’ve got to understand what wins and what loses for us. What’s our formula? For us, it might not be flashy. It might be boring football, but it works for us.

Much of the legend surrounding my mother is true. She was a beautiful, talented, warmhearted woman who had the greatest sense of humor. At the same time, she was a sharp, fiery lady who was full of spunk and had a flashy temper.

The University of Memphis didn’t have the flashy profile or the national exposure. It’s a great university. I love the offense. I love the atmosphere, the big city. They have everything I want. The only knock against them is they are not a great team.

I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn’t always flashy, but it does get results.