Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Blumenthal

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

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

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.

Eric Schmidt

I think it's arrogant for us to walk into a country where we are just beginning operations and tell that country how to run itself.

Douglas Hurd

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Bokeem Woodbine

I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

Casey Wilson

Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

Even back then, he knew he was going to make it. Not in an arrogant way... he just knew.

Jeff Lemire

There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.

Paul Watson

I would just say that nobody could do what I do unless you had a big ego. It's the only way you can really put it. You have to be arrogant enough to challenge the arrogance of the human race.

Hugo Chavez

The United States brought the attacks upon itself, for their arrogant imperialist foreign policy,

Edi Rama

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Claude Monet

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

Jeffrey Zeldman

There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

Rosie Perez

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

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.

Darren Campbell

Well, to begin with, he is compassionate. He is not a bully. He doesn't throw cups of tea. People who say he is arrogant don't know him. What it is about him is confidence, belief. I know it's a fine line, but I have known him since I was a 14-year-old and he has always had a soft side. One of his greatest assets is that mentally he is one of the strongest people I have ever met.

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

It just seems a little unseemly for them to be considering pay raises. That's an arrogant situation to be in.

Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing a big market

In its arrogant quest for power, the Republican Party has continuously turned its back on hardworking Texans and families who get up every morning, go to work and play by the rules.

Gwendoline Christie

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

Lamar Alexander

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

India is being used as a dumping ground. The French government has taken a very arrogant approach. They have cheated, misled and lied.

Individually the write-ins did not win, but collectively they certainly did. A powerful message was sent to three powerfully arrogant incumbents. This should have been a walk in the park to re-election, and they've been given their worst nightmare.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Arrogant powers are intended to make local and national economy of other states bankrupt to make more benefits from establishment of a big market

Arrogant companies try to manage customer relationships to the exclusion of other people. This is not a new story.

The young actors get hit harder because of their age. Because Rat Pack - which Brat Pack is clearly a parody of - was not negative. Brat Pack is. It suggests unruly, arrogant young people, and that description isn't true of these people.

They had this arrogant belief that when baby boomers turn 50, 'they belong to us,' and that just didn't happen.

Brian Kelly

But I lost (quarterback) Curt Anes in the first round of the (2001 Division II) playoffs -- the most prolific player in the history of Grand Valley -- when I coached there and we won the national championship with a wide receiver (at quarterback). I am just that arrogant or that stupid to think we can do the same thing without Jerry Seymour.