Quotes About Using Big Words

#1. Nick smiled. "I kind of like the irony."
"Jesus, you are such a nerd." Gabriel flung the lighter at him.
"Stop using big words."
"Five letters is a big word?

Brigid Kemmerer

#2. When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

Allen Lacy

#3. I think of my own epitaph, still to be written, and all the places I'll wander. No longer rooted, but gold, flowing. I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. -Violet

Jennifer Niven

#4. The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have shaped my life and made me who I am. It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children.

Robert D. Hales

#5. I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'

Dolly Parton

#6. I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

Andy Warhol

#7. Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.

Red Skelton

#8. There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Giovanna Fletcher

#9. I've always loved vintage and I never like to have something someone else has.

Jillian Hervey

#10. The more downtime we have, the more time you have to play games like 'Ghost Recon Future Soldiers,' so for me it's a fun way to get integrated into video games and for me to have fun with my buddies and team up and go into battle with 'em, kind of like out there on court.

Kevin Love

#11. If we will not prepare to give all that we have and that all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#12. Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

Terry Pratchett

#13. What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

Jewel

#14. I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Bob Hawke

#16. A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.

Aria Cunningham

#17. For Robert the experience was another step in education. He was learning in particular that patriotic declarations did not make due process of law superfluous and that he owed a debt to his own inner standards.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.