Pontificating Quotes

#1. When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.

Vincent Bugliosi

#2. I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Elon Musk

#3. We may learn things from one who preaches, or we may find their pontificating a waste of time - often enough, a hypocritical waste of time. What child ever preaches? Yet time spent open-heartedly with a child is never wasted.

Quentin S. Crisp

#4. I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.

Laura Schlessinger

#5. No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.

Penn Jillette

#6. Maybe that was true of marriage everywhere. Between times, in their own living rooms, the men seemed to be resting for the next round of pontificating and so saved their strength by staying silent.

Anna Quindlen

#7. Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems. The monetary system is a legal contrivance. Property, not money, is real wealth. It's physical, not legal.

Louis O. Kelso

#8. Senselessly pontificating about things does not get anything done, doing something about it does.

Murad S. Shah

#9. Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating.
You do the natural. Trust God for the super.

Steven Furtick

#10. When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious ... I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.

Drew Barrymore

#11. Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

George Papandreou

#12. Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to believe ... No, science tells us what there is good reason to believe.

Richard Dawkins

#13. Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

John Lydon

#14. It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Ariel Durant

#15. In any case, I had been one of them. If her lovers were horrifying, I too had been of their order. That had to be admitted. 'It is no good pontificating,' Mr Deacon used to say, 'about other people's sexual tastes.

Anthony Powell

#16. You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Ann Beattie

#17. The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the presence of primordial depth all art is but dream and nature.

Hans Arp

#18. I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Duncan Hines

#19. A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.

Jeremy Bolt

#20. Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.

Bill Gates

#21. As one Wharton dean explains, "The students call it Game Face: they feel pressured to look successful all the time. There can't be any chinks in their armor, and opening up would make them vulnerable.

Adam Grant

#22. Courage and fear were one thing too.

John Steinbeck

#23. I think people ultimately reveal themselves to everybody. I think that's the case with Sarah Palin's conduct, particularly after the Tucson shooting, I think she's sort of digging herself into a hole. I hope - I really hope.

Patti Davis

#24. When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Sarah Dessen

#25. People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

Robert Mitchum

#26. Imagination is more powerful than money or hydrogen bomb.

Debasish Mridha

#27. You show me a great program and I'll show you a passionate individual somewhere behind it.

Andy Hertzfeld

#28. Love is magical, it changes and brightens up your world!

Allan Rufus

#29. You are a universe, he reverentially whispered, and then his game began. A game of pushing me to the brink, of building the anticipation ... and leaving me stranded in the midst of it.

Chloe Neill