Top 42 Quotes About Long Winded: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Long Winded

#1. I am an impatient, temperamental reader. Anything long-winded, high-flown or gushing irritates me, so does everything that is vague and indistinct, in fact anything that unnecessarily holds the reader up, whether in a novel, a biography or an intellectual argument.

Stefan Zweig

#2. [Tom] Wolfe's books offered a whole new world to step into, and whilst at times you could accuse him of being somewhat long-winded, he had an incredible quality of prose and a bravery of writing from the heart. He believed in being autobiographical at all times.

Jude Law

#3. I wanted to create a more spontaneous outlet for my songwriting to have alongside the more long-winded process of making an album. I wanted to have some fun.

Jens Lekman

#4. I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

Robert De Niro

#5. There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

John Grisham

#6. When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

George Saunders

#7. The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence, but a long-winded sentence with a lot of unnecessary subordinate clauses,

Margaret Atwood

#8. The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.

Fanny Kemble

#9. I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say, 'Shut up.

Penn Jillette

#10. Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Turning a corner, I ran into an old acquaintance - one of those long-winded fellows whose conversational powers ignore time and embrace eternity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#12. I've learned that it helps when you're in love with a mummy to pay attention to little things like curses, adder stones, and long-winded archaeologists.

Colleen Houck

#13. I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#14. Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

Mason Cooley

#15. It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring ...

Vissarion Belinsky

#16. Sorry, I just want a quick little summary of what you do."

Wick chuckled. "He already knows you're long-winded, mate."

Dov glared at him. "I'm sorry?"

Wick's smile split his face as he bumped his colleague with his shoulder and then turned to me.

Mary Calmes

#17. Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass.

George Takei

#18. After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.

Barry Goldwater

#19. Work/Loaf Ratio" ... I have spent fourteen years perfecting ... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the "W/LR" save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.

Gary Reilly

#20. I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.

Christy Hall

#21. Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line
even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

Isaac Asimov

#22. A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

Bruce Dickinson

#23. It may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task; we convince ourselves that were have never said enough on the subject ... where sex is concerned the most long-winded, the most impatient of societies is our own.

Michel Foucault

#24. It is positively because he is quick-witted that he is long-winded.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. 3762
Hence the necessity of getting off the merry-go-round too figure out what is really going on and let your sad feelings tell their own sometimes weird, complex, and long-winded story.

Frederick Woolverton

#26. A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

Cy Young

#27. Justice is juxtaposition in us
Justice for all just ain't specific enough.

Common

#28. Our life is just as long or short as our memory, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Neel Burton

#29. Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

Michel De Montaigne

#30. 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

#31. There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Jose Bergamin

#32. By the hairy ass of lord hell. Many characters in the Deverry Cycle Novels

Katharine Kerr

#33. Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

Theodore Bikel

#34. Val's answer was as out of character for him as his presence here. I don't know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#35. I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.

Jennifer Aniston