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- I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. — Danny Boyle
- Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
- Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton
- 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
- No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. — William Makepeace Thackeray
- Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. — Tsukahara Bokuden
- Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser
- I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as… — Goldie Hawn
- There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence… — Piers Morgan
- Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what… — Barbara Stanwyck
- Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. — Howard Cosell