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«Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.»
Author: Barbara Stanwyck (Actress) | Keywords: pompous, privileged
«Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.»
Author: Giuseppe Verdi | About: Mistakes | Keywords: A-one, interminable, opera, operas, pompous
«A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did»
Author: Konrad Lorenz (Zoologist) | About: Delusion, Men | Keywords: Delusions, flattering, gifted, perceiving, pompous, succumbing, succumbs, sufficiently, with humor
«Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.»
Author: Leonard L. Levinson | About: America and Americans, Chicago | Keywords: Milwaukee, pompous
«Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don?t let them take you ALIVE.»
Author: Sid Vicious | Keywords: anarchy, disorder, disruption, pompous, reject, standards, trademark, trademarks, undermine, undermined, undermines, undermining
«Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential...»
Author: William Thomas | Keywords: inconsequential, insignificance, moron, morons, pathetic, pompous
«Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.»
Author: William Zinsser | Keywords: circular, cluttered, constructions, frills, jargon, jargon of, pompous, strangling, unnecessary
«Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: ballast, electric, pompous, proverb, self-satisfied, tide, waits, wires
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