Big Words Quotes (13 quotes)

“Callipygian. Having shapely buttocks. Nice one, Bridge.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

tags: big-words, butts

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“A squalid phantasmagoria of breath”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: big-words, fitzgerald, side-of-paradise

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“It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: big-words, growing-up

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“...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...”
― Jon Fosse, Aliss at the Fire

tags: big-words, truth, words

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“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, annoy, annoying, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, big-words, bombast, bombastic, child, children, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, funny, gnome, gnomes, grownup, grownups, humor, humorous, humour, insightful, intelligence, intelligent, irritate, irritated, irritating, kid, kids, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, offspring, parent, parents, philosopher, pompous, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, show-off, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unintelligent

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“All those big words produce disgust today.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

tags: big-words, books, dejan-stojanovic, disgust, literature, literature-quotes, philosophy, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, the-sun-watches-the-sun, today, wisdom, words

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“As is usual with the ignorant, long words had the fascination for both girls that obstacles on the road have for a bad driver; instead of avoiding them they ran into them.”
― Dorothy Whipple, The Priory

tags: big-words, words

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“O.K., so I’m not so smart. I’m working class. But it’s the working class that keeps the world running, and it’s the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can’t understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that? I mean, I’d like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody’s really being exploited, we’ve got to put a stop to it. That’s what I believe, and that’s why I ask questions. Am I right, or what?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: big-words, exploitation, revolution, social-revolution, working-class

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“I am not impressed by big words,' said my uncle, who was always ready enough to bandy 'predestination' and 'infralapsarianism.”
― Peter De Vries, The Blood of the Lamb

tags: big-words, calvinism, infralapsarianism, predestination

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“... Anthropocene Working Group of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy...”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey

tags: big-words, eras, funny-and-random, time-periods

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“Large and obscure words tax mental resources too much, interrupting you from making your point and disconnecting you from your audience. That’s why simplicity in speech is valued and used by people in the most important fields, like tech and politics.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

tags: big-words, communication, politics, simplicity, speech, tech, the-brain, vocabulary

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“Other youngsters in town sometimes thought I was 'putting on airs' when I used words they didn't know. The problem was, I honestly didn't know which words those were.”
― Daniel Thorman, Mayhem at the Mill

tags: big-words, vocabulary

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“The best sentences are not those that are built from obscure words, but those whose meanings create ripples in our imagination that go beyond the words they contain.”
― Joyce Rachelle

tags: big-words, clarity, meaning, obscurity, sentences, simplicity, vocabulary, writing, writing-advice

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