big words QUOTES

1 " Would you believe I was in the neighborhood?”“No." “Well, how about that I needed to see you.”“Why? Did one of my neighbors call and say my cat’s been stalking their bunny?”One corner of his mouth went up. “You know, that sounds like a euphemism. A kind of salacious one”“Ooh, big words for Mr. Average Joe street cop,” she said, knowing she sounded bitchy but unable to help it. “Can you take out the angry eyes, Mrs. Potato Head, and just let me talk to you? "

2 " Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent. "

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

3 " In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white stars we call white dwarfs. When stars are made of neutrons, we call them neutron stars. Stars that pulse, we call them pulsars. In biology they come up with big Latin words for things. MDs write prescriptions in a cuneiform that patients can’t understand, hand them to the pharmacist, who understands the cuneiform. It’s some long fancy chemical thing, which we ingest. In biochemistry, the most popular molecule has ten syllables—deoxyribonucleic acid! Yet the beginning of all space, time, matter, and energy in the cosmos, we can describe in two simple words, Big Bang. We are a monosyllabic science, because the universe is hard enough. There is no point in making big words to confuse you further.
Want more? In the universe, there are places where the gravity is so strong that light doesn’t come out. You fall in, and you don’t come out either: black hole. Once again, with single syllables, we get the whole job done. Sorry, but I had to get all that off my chest. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , Welcome to the Universe: The Problem Book

4 " Small fruit is better than big words. "

5 " But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? "

― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

6 " Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. "

― James Boswell , The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

7 " I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious. "

― Don Roff

8 " The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas. "

― Oliver Markus

9 " The dictionary feeds me daily, thesaurus always adds the gravy, big words I bite, so very tasty. "

10 " O.K., so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. "

11 " Ok I'm not so smart I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running and it's the working class that get exploited. What kind revolution is it that just throws out big words that working class people can't understand.

Revolution or not the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes

I'm not going to believe in any damned revolution. Love is all I'm going to believe in. -- Midori "

― Haruki Murakami , Norwegian Wood

12 " One guy yelled at me, 'You stupid bitch, how do you live like that with nothing in your brain?' Well, that did it. I wasn't going to put up with that. Ok, I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working classes that get exploited. What kind of revolution is it that just throws out big words that working-class people can't understand? What kind of crap social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. Am I right, or what? "

― Haruki Murakami , Norwegian Wood