Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mitchell

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

Gordon Hinckley

Where there is appreciation, there is courtesy, there is concern for the rights and property of others. Without appreciation, there is arrogance and evil.

Edgar Friedenberg

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Alan Kay

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Chen Shui-bian

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Bob Lewis

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

Benoit Mandelbrot

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Rory Bremner

When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.

Demi Lovato

Rocker dudes dont have swagger

Demi Lovato

Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger.

Cam Newton

The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

Drew Brees

I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness

Alexis Hornbuckle

I think they had the swagger we usually carry.

Earl Cox

You really need to get your swagger back.

Chinua Achebe

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Bruno Latour

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Bill Joy

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

Dennis Brown

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that.

Ed Droste

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.

Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

bell hooks

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Barry Sonnenfeld

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Brent Weeks

You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.