Sesquipedalian verbosity is just another notion of challenging the zenith mind. — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
I unintentionally slaughter sacred cows in public venues and speak my mind even when I have lost it. I often open my… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Long-bodied, long-worded Johnny cocked an ear. "A tintamarrous bombilation!" he remarked. "Sounds more like a fight to me," Monk muttered. Ham said,… — Kenneth Robeson Copy Share Image
“Your father had other plans for you. Alas, his breakdown and untimely demise derailed everything he'd worked to accomplish. He would not… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
“While I did that, my own eyes got wet, not fakely, and I blinked the wetness away because it was not my… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“While Nape was making the bread and Dryas boiling the ram, Daphnis and Chloe had time to go forth as far as… — Longus (Longos Copy Share Image
“Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections […] Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image