Quotes About Bombast

#1. I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

John Adams

#2. I don't want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us.

Oscar A. Romero

#3. Small-minded speakers and writers hide behind big words.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. There is a word in South Africa - ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us,

Barack Obama

#5. Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#6. There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

Horace Walpole

#7. Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

Dahlia Lithwick

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Robert Galbraith

#10. After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

Mason Cooley

#11. I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror.

Jon Bon Jovi

#12. There was a scientist who did not believe in gods or fairies or supernatural creatures of any sort. But she had once known an angel, and had talked to her every day.

Daryl Gregory

#13. The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

Albert Ellis

#14. I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

Alan Furst

#15. I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

Harold Prince

#16. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

#17. It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

Henry Lawson

#18. It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's lips like scurf from the hair of a bank manager.

Stephen Fry

#19. It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#20. Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten

Aesop

#21. Bible reading is an education in itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#22. How now, my sweet creature of bombast! How long is't ago, Jack, since thou saw'st thien own knee?

William Shakespeare

#23. For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

George Vecsey

#24. This place is packed with beautiful hipsters. While the Coney Island bombast radiated sincerity, everything here seems more ironic. When someone in the crowd ironically chants, 'USA!' someone else ironically chants back, 'Mother Russia.

Jon Ronson

#25. Whether in church, at home, or in the margins of life, nothing is more important to our families than the teaching and application of sound doctrine.

Anonymous

#26. The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

Jean De La Bruyere

#27. The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. The moment illuminates the political Jefferson - a man who got his way quietly but unmistakably, without bluster or bombast, his words congenial but his will unwavering.

Jon Meacham