Highfalutin Quotes

#1. When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!

Ron Wood

#2. It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

Fritz Maytag

#3. How surprisingly alive false ideas are! They even have their own evolution. At first they are highfalutin' 'truths,' then humdrum 'laws,' and finally superstitions.

Nina Berberova

#4. Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

Charles Krauthammer

#5. . . . when a woman has a husband
And you've got none,
Why should she take advice from you?
Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare
And all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

Meredith Willson

#6. We'd all be a heap sight better off if we'd forget the highfalutin notions of our fancy civilization and mind more what the savages knew long before us: to honor our mother.

Anonymous

#7. I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical.

Anthony Hopkins

#8. I don't mean to be highfalutin about it, but I try to limit my visibility.

John Hawkes

#9. Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.

Ray Kroc

#10. Well, James Matthew is a name that will wear well and not fade in the washing," said Miss Cornelia. "I'm glad you didn't load him down with some highfalutin, romantic name that he'd be ashamed of when he gets to be a grandfather ...

L.M. Montgomery

#11. Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Franklin Foer

#12. Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Nile Rodgers

#13. Retribution is just outstanding.

Douglas Preston

#14. I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.

David Lagercrantz

#15. And did you have to hack his arms off?" "Yes, I did. He wouldn't go through the door."
"You say it like you're proud of it."
I was proud of it. It was an example of quick thinking in a difficult situation.

Ilona Andrews

#16. Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

Robert Greene

#17. If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.

Jason Evert

#18. Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.

Joan Benoit

#19. You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

Quincy Jones

#20. Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

Henry Iba

#21. It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Jodi Picoult

#22. In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

Saint John Chrysostom

#23. I was putting a lot on the line for a guy that was probably as ready to commit to a relationship as George Clooney was.

Anonymous

#24. Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and ... it's like attempting for something.

David Lynch

#25. I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Elon Musk

#26. The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

H.L. Mencken

#27. I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.

Stephen King