Turgid Quotes

#1. For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

Pauline Kael

#2. Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

Russell Brand

#3. The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

#4. Alone in the clearing, I rediscover your sighs in the notes of turgid and green leaves

Luca Ferrarini

#5. My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy.

Carol Ann Duffy

#6. In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, here I am, dragging a frayed line, and my anchor gone.

John Steinbeck

#7. The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

Rachel Cusk

#8. The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

#9. Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.

Isaac Watts

#10. I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems ...

John Geddes

#11. Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

Quintilian

#12. Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. The boy may wrestle, when Night
working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.

John Armstrong

#14. A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Tom Rachman

#15. Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

Carl R. Trueman

#16. Fine. Will you thrust your turgid manroot into my dewy petals?

N.M. Silber

#17. The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

William Shatner

#18. Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

Helen Reddy

#19. Cross my wooden leg, swear on my glass eye.

Tom Waits

#20. Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh

#21. I just wanna belong, Bailey," he said softly. "I wanna belong in your world with your friends and your hobbies and your gardens. That's all. I wanna know everything about you, even if I have to bully it out of you. Put you on the spot. Make you uncomfortable. 'Cause I can't get enough of you.

S. Walden

#22. People are made of so many fragile pieces.

Victoria Schwab

#23. This big fat woman bumped me on the floor, she was rarin' to go, she was rarin' to go. Then she did a dip, I almost broke my hip.

Joe Tex

#24. Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

Melanie Griffith

#25. I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide ...

Emil Cioran

#26. I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

Tony Scott

#27. Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

Kevin Keegan

#28. The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Jodi Picoult

#29. Which to you have?' Mel asked, blocking the entry with his body. 'Talent or issues?' I paused for a moment, thought about this. 'Both,' I said at last.

Leila Sales

#30. I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.

Rachael Ray

#31. I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

Gary Shteyngart