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Big Words Quotes

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.
- James Joyce

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
- James Joyce

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
- Ernest Hemingway

I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger)
- Lisa Kleypas

I snatched the paper away from Dopey.
"Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!"
"Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said.
- Meg Cabot

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
- L M Montgomery

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

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
- L M Montgomery

What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?
- Haruki Murakami

Believe me, I know what I'm talking about. I'm working class. Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes. And what is a revolution? It sure as
hell isn't just changing the name on city hall. But those guys don't know that - those guys with their big words. Tell me, Watanabe, have you ever seen a taxman?
- Haruki Murakami

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- Samuel Johnson

It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.
- Chuck Palahniuk

[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal."
The kid lifted his eyebrows.
"My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
- Jim Butcher

I raise an eyebrow, working to achieve the right tone of intellectual superiority. If you've never read the Twilight books or the Hunger Games series you wouldn't understand. Not. One. Bit. They are complex stories. Big words. Probably beyond you.
- Anne Eliot

I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such behavior 'public service'.
- Harlan Ellison

...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

I like using big words. Words like huge, gigantic, massive.
- Jarod Kintz

He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.
- Jon Krakauer

Small fruit is better than big words.
- Jerry L Lewis

Philosophy is common sense with big words.
- James Madison

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
- Callan Mcauliffe

My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.
- Karen Russell

Pandemic, Pangaea, Panacea, Panoply. Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to simple, but put on their full armor and rode with colors flying.
- Catherynne M Valente

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
- Charlotte Whitton

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