Quotes About Wordy

I've never been called a man of few words.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

He'd talk the leg off a wooden indian.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. . . . I am a proud non-reader of books. —KANYE WEST (Reuters, May 2009) This book be dedicated to Kanye West, because he'll never fuckin' read it.

AMBAGES  (AMBA'GES)   n.s.[Lat.]A circuit of words; a circumlocutory form of speech; a multiplicity of words; an indirect manner of expression.

I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episodic stories of considerable length. And I won't have to listen to complaints about how wordy and long my work is if you can watch it on your telephone on the subway: You can make it conform to your day as if it were a book.

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to his honesty and his ability and his nose and the shape of his feet and his blue blood and his energy and what-have-you, and all the time, I was dying to quote that smart old Billy Shakespeare who was just as wordy as she was: 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

Evening," Zane said. It was a pretty wordy opening for him.

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

The woman never used one word when she could torment ten.

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

sesquipedalian bushwa.

Their father, Polonius, was in a 'have a go' mood and joined in. He also made changes, and together they renamed it: The Tragedy of the Very Witty and Not Remotely Boring Polonius, Father of the Noble Laertes, Who Avenges His Fair Sister, Ophelia, Driven Mad by the Callous, Murderous and Outrageously Disrespectful Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "What was it like?" "With Polonius? Very . . . wordy.

The writers she prefers are long dead and are on the wordy side. If the novel on the sofa is 700 pages long, and the author photo is an engraving, it's either hers or Hugh's.

The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.

He thus rejected union versus abolition as a false choice and adopted as his pseudonym the rather wordy but telling "A FRIEND OF THE UNION, AND AN ENEMY OF SLAVERY."34

Christian prayer is generally too worshipful and therefore dualistic. And it is too wordy.