“ Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases. ”
- Johnnie Cochran- Copy
- 964
“ See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow? ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
- 2K
“ If you've been aggressively marketing your property for six weeks and if you don't have a bloated dead cow in your front yard, your house is probably priced 10 percent over fair market value. ”
- Ray Brown- Copy
- 1.3K
“ What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? ”
- Sophocles- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale. ”
- Mordecai Richler- Copy
- 2.2K
“ They were going to look at war, the red animal — war, the blood-swollen god. ”
- Stephen Crane- Copy
- 194
“ With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. ”
- John Madden- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. ”
- Billy Corgan- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs. ”
- Gordon Parks- Copy
- 571
“ Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach. ”
- Jennifer Lopez- Copy
- 1.2K
“ That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest? ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.3K
“ While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. ”
- Emile Durkheim- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks. ”
- Chazz Palminteri- Copy
- 1.4K
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