Bombast Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not…
— Philip Warren Anderson
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally…
— John Dryden
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It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's…
— Stephen Fry
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Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a…
— Rob Brezsny
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Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without…
— Henry Lawson
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Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons…
— Frederick Douglass
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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 the…
— Def Leppard
Who Wrote These Bombast Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Bombast Quotes as follows: