Orotund Quotes

#1. The French, than whom - it's a very than-whom people all round - none can be more vacuously orotund, are (the same ones) obligingly terse. On occasion.

Nicolas Freeling

#2. You know that the nucleus of a time is not
The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind
Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed
As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins
Nor stand there making orotund consolations.
He shares the confusions of intelligence.

Wallace Stevens

#3. President Clinton commenced the blathering with orotund

P. J. O'Rourke

#4. Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.

Eileen Myles

#5. And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time.

Ian McEwan

#6. These findings - the contents of Part II of this book - show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet.

T. Colin Campbell

#7. All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Anna Quindlen

#8. The hardest things to do in any art is to risk failure and put yourself out on the line.

Oscar Isaac

#9. My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.

Mitt Romney

#10. Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

Patrick McGrath