Sophisticated Language Quotes

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.