Pomposities Quotes

#1. Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

Samuel Beckett

#2. When you think about people, you give them power.

Sophia Amoruso

#3. You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Mark Twain

#4. Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#5. Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

Mordecai Richler

#7. Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.

Cees Nooteboom

#8. I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

Jonny Greenwood

#9. Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.

Jonathan Ross

#10. Delayed gratification is one of the greatest virtues our nation and churches need to embrace.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.

Tom Araya

#12. Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.

James Allen

#13. Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

Queen Latifah

#14. I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

Nicki Minaj

#15. But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

David Benioff