Best Bombastic Quotes

#1. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

David Yates

#2. I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience that it detracted from the show. I more enjoyed shows where the guys came out and they just played.

Ray Lamontagne

#3. I played in Velvet Revolver, which is a raw, bombastic blues band with a punk rock edge to it. It's like everything is based around the blues, no matter what the groove is.

Scott Weiland

#4. What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. I am more than I have shown you and more than you are willing to see. Let's work our love and know each other more fully.

Mark Nepo

#6. I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

Hans Frank

#7. Every action has a reaction,everything we do or say has an effect.

Heidi Ayarbe

#8. North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.

Barbara Demick

#9. What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

Moby

#10. I'm a big, bombastic novelist and thrill-ride guy. I'm never going to win the National Book Award.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#11. I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside.

Vir Das

#12. The Mere Fact That Mankind (Male or Female) Can Dream It ... Means One Day They Will Build and Achieve It.

Timothy Pina

#13. In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words: from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading.

Rick Perlstein

#14. I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

Ricky Gervais

#15. Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

Dannel Malloy

#16. What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

Edward Dahlberg

#17. The discourse of power is, of its nature, bombastic, pontifical, and domineering.

David Bentley Hart

#18. You can be known as the most beautiful woman
who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal

Bob Dylan

#19. I'm up for a massive, bombastic tour with hydraulics, robots, lasers, 15 costume changes, projecting on a power station, big impact, big visuals. I'd love to realize the theatricality of the whole thing. To be overwhelming, to surprise you, maybe to play in hidden spaces.

Anna Meredith

#20. I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#21. I've been on the road since 1967.

Jimmie Walker

#22. I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

Michael W. Smith

#23. People only have so much attention.

Demetri Martin

#24. Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'

Mallory Ortberg

#25. I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

Jonathan Kozol

#26. When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.

Moby

#27. 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and ... obsequious.

Matt Groening

#28. I'm a cat! Cats don't go round feeling *sorry*! Or guilty! We never *regret* anything! Do you know what it feels like saying, 'Hello food, can you talk?' That's not how a cat is supposed to behave!

Terry Pratchett

#29. He's what my old mum would call a bombastic little nit of a man.

Jacqueline Winspear

#30. Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Dave Brubeck

#31. The danger is in becoming so seduced by the lexiconic that we became lexiphanes. There's no excuse for indulging in the bombastic at any time, of course.

Murray Waldren

#32. The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals.

Richard Conniff

#33. I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you.

Robin Zander

#34. It is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

Kallistos Ware

#35. I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

Moby

#36. Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.

Marv Levy

#37. We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.

Kris Carr

#38. I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic power. But when you're going to have a book out there that's called Wonder Woman and she's on it, you have a responsibility to put out a certain kind of image.

Cliff Chiang