Overly Wordy Quotes

#1. I had thought the only person Neil loved was himself. That he probably shouted his own name when he was coming.

Marian Keyes

#2. I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.

Peter Blegvad

#3. If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

Gloria Steinem

#4. In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Ralph Ellison

#5. Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.

Del Shannon

#6. It's funny when you write a song - it's easy for me now - but there's almost a second stage where you take control of the song. You start writing it, and if you're not careful, it just finishes itself and it might not be what you wanted. It's very strange, it takes over itself. It has its own life.

Kate Bush

#7. African church is a fusion of half bible truth and abundance of superstition, the latter aspect, leaving nothing remaining for the oracle.

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

#8. Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond ... If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Ooh, I know! You took a course of action so circumlocutious that it would've been faster AND easier for all parties if you just killed yourself?

Brian Clevinger

#10. Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left! ... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#11. The reason can make as much damage as passion.

Alberto Ferreras

#12. Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

Paul Newman

#13. "The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation is hopeless.

Wilferd Peterson

#14. What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

Julie Carmen

#15. Mecca has been banned for Christians for hundreds of years.

Kwasi Kwarteng

#16. You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

Nick Lowe