#pompous

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#career #groups #i #i think #pompous

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#become #boring #events #life #pompous

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you. ↗

— Robert Plant

#air #around #being #bit #bodies

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. ↗

— Barbara Stanwyck

#career #doing #felt #i #i love

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. ↗

— Peter Jackson

#like #movies #pompous #pretentious

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor. ↗

— William Shatner

#artistically #create #day #every #flavor

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything. ↗

— Paul Simon

#created #everything #get #humor #i

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. ↗

— William Thomas

#deal #fact #her #his #important

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done. ↗

— Peter Cushing

#come #done #fame #famous #got

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me? ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#ass #attitude #contempt #curmudgeon #hilarious