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“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories“I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus“– and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools – guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus – THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!”
Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character“Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.”
Felix Alba-Juez, E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.”
William Browning Spencer“No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.”
Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes“My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.”
Craig Ferguson“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”
Ilsa J. Bick, Drowning Instinct