Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're not as arrogant as they think we are. And I don't think they have a chip on their shoulder as much.

Bram Cohen

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

Blaise Pascal

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Elie Wiesel

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Edward Rutherfurd

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Steve Harris

She sends mixed signals, 'yes, I'm prepared to listen to you', but also arrogant and not give-and-take.

Arthur Boyd

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Bruce Sterling

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

We're always prepared, whether mentally or physically. It's just a question of execution. And I think they're still cautiously optimistic. My hope and dream is for them to become arrogant in the next five, six weeks.

I feel like I'm a guy that can step up and make big plays. I can go out there and try to make a big play to help out the team, which is what it's about for me. I'm not a cocky or arrogant guy. I just want to help my team.

Gary Numan

For years I couldn't understand why people thought I was so arrogant - now it all makes a bit more sense.

Josh needs to get dried out. Josh isn't arrogant -- he's much more quiet, but he drinks all the time. With Josh it's the drinking. For Robert, it's the 'you can't touch me' attitude.

Richard Blumenthal

I will fight Islander East's arrogant attempt to sidestep long-established state laws, violating constitutional guarantees,

It is a bit arrogant to believe that we will win the World Cup. We can win it but everything needs to go perfectly. We should not be talking about the title at the moment.

John Howard

I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.

If it is true radio stations will not play Cliff's records, it is an arrogant unreasonable attitude.

Boris Vallejo

I actually think that there is definitely a value in studying art at an art school. I myself went to an art school for five years and I have to confess that I don't use, right now, any of the things that I supposedly learned while I was there; if I learned anything at all. I was very arrogant and I didn't feel that I should be studious because I felt that I knew more than they did.

I think to one degree or another we have been arrogant in the past.

Aidan O'Brien

He has the most arrogant personality. The way he'll look you up and down, it's unusual in a horse. You go in and he looks at you as if to say: 'Feed me and get out'. He has a huge ego, pumps himself up. He looks down on people and looks down on horses. On the gallops, when he lies up with them doing a half-speed, he'd be herding them.

Management's arrogant and excessive demands are unacceptable and are putting Northwest's future in serious jeopardy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

Many hai gui thought they were too good when they got home. They were very arrogant and people didn't want to hire them.

Rosie Perez

Why would someone be so arrogant and smug to think children would only want to learn one language?

You can call me cocky, arrogant or whatever, ... I think I would have made that play.

Robert Ingersoll

It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god

Matt McGorry

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

But we must understand what actually took place and not let this arrogant buffoon get away with his attempt to rewrite history.

Robin Wright

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

I am arrogant enough to believe that if I can talk to a juror, I have a pretty good chance of finding out whether they have an agenda.

Doris Lessing

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.

Colin Powell

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

Kevin O'Leary

I don't mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they're arrogant and rude, I don't care.

Brian Eno

It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!