Verbose Quotes

#1. Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

Edouard Manet

#2. Anything added can be subtracted; anything verbose can be simplified; anything missing can be found. Manuscripts are not books but negatives waiting for the fixer that turns them into prints.

Chloe Thurlow

#3. Be prepared to fall out of love with your words. I'm still too verbose at times.

Josh Elliott

#4. Are you ready to step out of the prison of memory and conditioned responses into the experience of freedom? If so, then observe your addictive behaviors without judgment.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

Saint Augustine

#6. For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.

Alain De Botton

#7. Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

Haruki Murakami

#8. There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other ... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose ... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.

Phil Jackson

#9. Fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce a more vexingly verbose female.

Gail Carriger

#10. Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Edouard Manet

#11. If there was any hope left, it lay in love's hopeless promises.

Rick Yancey

#12. We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

Thomas Dewey

#13. But this was the first time someone he loved would be gone forever. He didn't like to think about the forever part. But when he did, which was often, the only place he wanted to be was home.

Kevin Henkes

#14. A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling me about how an album is like a fine meal.

David Cross

#15. His biceps is bigger than her head, but he's as gentle as a lamb with her.

Elle Kennedy

#16. I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.

Gail Carriger

#17. Cleopatra: Give me to drink Mandragora.
Charmian: Why, madam?
Cleopatra: That I might sleep out this great gap of time my Antony is away.

William Shakespeare

#18. Revolutions are always verbose.

Leon Trotsky

#19. We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused
in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

Edgar Allan Poe

#20. Well, I like to have fun at work.

John Malkovich

#21. The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

Walter Lippmann

#22. A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

Peter De Vries

#23. Verbose; a word known only by those who are.

Me

#24. Most magazines have peak moments. They live on, they do just okay, or they die. 'The New Yorker' has had a very different kind of existence.

David Remnick

#25. I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#26. I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

Josh Gad

#27. I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.

Charles Stross

#28. Builder pattern is more verbose than the telescoping constructor pattern, so it should be used only if there are enough parameters, say, four or more.

Joshua Bloch

#29. Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

Constance Hale

#30. Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#31. The day never starts nor does it end, we just decide to call it a day.....

Vidur Moudgil

#32. If you think I acted odd consider us even....

Vidur Moudgil

#33. Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

Howard Cosell