Grandiloquence Antonyms Quotes & Sayings

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. — J.D. Salinger

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man. — Anna Quindlen

The big lesson about loving someone was coming to understand that when love ended for one person, it ended for both people. — Elizabeth George

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. — Aristotle.

Lyra, Cassiopeia the queen, whiplash Scorpius with the twin stings in his tail, all the friendly childhood patterns that had twinkled me to sleep from the glow-in-the-dark planetarium stars on my bedroom ceiling back in New York. Now, transfigured - cold and glorious like deities with their disguises flung off - it was as if they'd flown through the roof and into the sky to assume their true, celestial homes. — Donna Tartt

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it. — Igor Stravinsky

Ok, let me get this straight. Big wolf attacks you, and you bring him home?"
Brid threw out her arms and sent an 'are you a moron?' look to her best friend. — Chani Lynn Feener

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny. — Stephen Root

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect. — Kenneth Rogoff

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing. — Aspen Matis

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here. — Hugh Laurie