Blowhard Quotes & Sayings

All great men are partially inspired. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. — Louis Pasteur

True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive. — Lynda Obst

I feel guilty because for a long time I didn't allow myself a television, and I used to drop that fact in conversation to impress people. I thought it made me sound dignified. A couple of years ago, however, I visited a church in the suburbs and there was this blowhard preacher talking about how television rots your brain. He said that when we are watching television our minds are working no harder than when we are sleeping. I thought that sounded heavenly. I bought one that afternoon. — Donald Miller

Loving someone always requires you to not love others. — Koushun Takami

I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it). — Anne Lamott

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera. — David Brooks

To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments. — Dean Norris

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living. — Colin Mochrie

It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [ ... ] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is. — Jeff Schultz

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe ... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst. — Rudolf Steiner

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows. — Ben Stein

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it. — Walter Kirn

You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard. — Ann Coulter

It's more convenient to have a hero waiting in the wings than to endure a blowhard standing in the spotlight. — Gregory Maguire

Is there anyone I can level with? Anyone I dare tell that I am benevolent and malevolent, chaste and randy, compassionate and vindictive, selfless and selfish, that beneath my brave words lives a frightened child, that I dabble in religion and pornography, that I have blackened a friend's character, betrayed a trust, violated a confidence, that I am tolerant and thoughtful, a bigot and a blowhard, that I hate hard rock? — Brennan Manning

Temper, temper, wee English. 'Tis truly most becoming to you. — Karen Marie Moning

Right now, America looks like a fatheaded, shortsighted, gas-guzzling arrogant blowhard to the rest of the world. — James Patterson

A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich ... I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich.' — Jimmy Fallon

Totally incompetent blowhard, an idiot and a fool. — Nelson DeMille

Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They expected certain things of her, and forgave certain things from her, because she was foreign. Once, sitting with them in a bar, she heard Curt talking to Brad, and Curt said "blowhard." She was struck by the word, by the irredeemable Americanness of it. Blowhard. It was a word that would never occur to her. To understand this was to realize that Curt and his friends would, on some level, never be fully knowable to her. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie