Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
“The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important;… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of… — Richard Ney Copy Share Image
Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of… — Lyn Nofziger Copy Share Image
