Bombastic Quotes

• What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Men, Luck

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• Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

  Dannel Malloy

  World, Sake

  "Connecticut Governor, Tackling Budget, Criticizes Christie’s Approach". Interview with David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. February 15, 2011.

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• I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

  Hans Frank

  Musical, Care, Taste

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloom-stream outnumber the neutrons, or whatever. Luckily, one only notices this if one stays sober oneself, so the solution is as pleasant (at the time, at least) as it is obvious.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, People, Drunk

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• Donald Trump has gone from making absurd comments to being downright dangerous with his bombastic rhetoric.

  Lindsey Graham

  Gone, Absurd, Trump

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Want, Jazz

  Doug Ramsey, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Paul Caulfield (2005). “Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond”, Parkside Pubns

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• I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• I seem like a big bombastic outgoing dude, when it comes down to it with the ladies, when I was a single, free-wheeling dude, I was always very shy. It was difficult to form sentences with the girl of my dreams.

  Jack Black

  Girl, Dream, Shy

  "Gulliver's Travels - Jack Black interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Self, Voice, Leaving

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• What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

  Moby

  Sound, Radio, Faces

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• The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals.

  Richard Conniff

  Sex, Stupid, Fall

  Richard Conniff (2003). “The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults wont take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little, won't take it back. All of our problems can be solved. All of our wounds can be healed by a tested leader who is willing to fight for the character of our nation.

  Carly Fiorina

  Country, Character, Fighting

  Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.

  Robin Zander

  Years, Play, Guitar

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.

  Ricky Gervais

  Dressing Up, Faces, Comedy

  "Ricky Gervais goes to Springfield". Interview with Brian Viner, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2006.

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• I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it.

  Moby

  Albums, Vulnerable, Subtlety

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• There's a page in #2 where I did one of the most interesting pages I've ever drawn. I had to think, "This is a big, blockbuster comic book." You're prepared to be more fan service-y or bombastic. Yet I did one of the most challenging pages I've ever drawn, and it was incredibly satisfying to do that on a project like this [All-Star Batman].

  Declan Shalvey

  Stars, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...

  David LaChapelle

  Thinking, Color, Style

  David LaChapelle (2008). “David LaChapelle al Forte Belvedere”, Giunti GAMM

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• I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.

  Judd Apatow

  Sweet, Fun, Views

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in anything close to politics up to this point I mean much like his father-in-law, and he's just such an unknown figure. I mean at least we knew Donald Trump as a reality television star and as a very bombastic figure. But Jared is so quiet, and he's so uninterested in courting press attention.

  Sarah Ellison

  Stars, Father, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Teacher, Hate

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• The language of North Korea is always bombastic. But what has really changed is the acceleration of their nuclear program, the likelihood that they have more and more weapons, and the acceleration of the testing of ballistic missiles in very, very aggressive ways towards Japan.

  Michael Leiter

  Japan, Korea, Nuclear

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm up for a massive, bombastic tour with hydraulics, robots, lasers, 15 costume changes, projecting on a power station, big impact, big visuals. I'd love to realize the theatricality of the whole thing. To be overwhelming, to surprise you, maybe to play in hidden spaces.

  Anna Meredith

  Impact, Play, Space

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic power. But when you're going to have a book out there that's called Wonder Woman and she's on it, you have a responsibility to put out a certain kind of image.

  Cliff Chiang

  Powerful, Book, Responsibility

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• In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.

  David Yates

  Drama, Hollywood Films, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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