Small-minded speakers and writers hide behind humongous…

“Small-minded speakers and writers hide behind big words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

— Wilson Follett

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how…

— Rick Yancey

“Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.”

— Horace Walpole

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and it's the bombast and…

— Def Leppard

There's a lot of bombast in Sparks' music.

— Russell Mael

“You can’t change the opinions of small-minded people.”

— Denise Grover Swank

“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”

— Epictetus

Don't let small minded people dictate how you should look and be free.

— Brian Molko