Orotundity Quotes

#1. An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

William Golding

#2. He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

Titian

#3. I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

Anderson Cooper

#4. There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

#5. Man is neither angel nor beast, and it is unfortunately the case that anyone trying to act the angel acts the beast.

Blaise Pascal

#6. Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it's because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.

James Morcan

#7. As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

Vincent Bugliosi

#8. We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

David Brooks

#9. I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold ...

Colin Hay