Arrogant Quotations

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.

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.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

For clothes, I like Anna on Regent's Park Road. Anna Park, who owns it, has an amazing eye for fresh, exciting clothes. I also love Arrogant Cat on Kensington Church Street. Space NK on Duke of York Square for exciting potions. I think I stretch the term 'tester' way beyond its boundaries.

The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.

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

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title Blue Planet in Green Shackles.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?

A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.

I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does

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!

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

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.

I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone's religion or belief.

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

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.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

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

James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.

I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

Well, the questioner came from Singapore which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy and therefore he referred to 15% per annum as modest. It's not modest-it's arrogant. Only someone from Singapore would call it modest.

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

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

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

Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right.

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

I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.

I'm not so arrogant to consider mine the only legitimate art form. I can't in one breath make a fuss about someone compartmentalizing music into genre and then in the next accuse advertising and short film of not being art.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

[Derek] Shackleton was a man who - it's probably arrogant to say it - but he was a little bit like me. He undertook incredible dangers and carried on over the sea and over the ice and all the rest of it. He was a remarkable man.

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

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Control is not humble; control is arrogant.

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

Lay was arrogant and defiant. If the defendant is going to take the stand, that's the best you could hope for as a prosecutor. He just appeared to be defiant.

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

No one since Sam Sheppard has been this arrogant and cold. This case is like a repeat of it.

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.

I was shocked at how they played us and the confidence they had. They were arrogant and that's how you have to be. They had that mentality of 'I'm going in the arena and beat their (butts).' We didn't have that.

If we didn't feel confident...we wouldn't be going through this. We have seven or eight full-time people on staff this year with no guaranteed revenue coming in. (But) I don't want to be so overconfident or arrogant that we think it's a done deal - we're going to have a really tough six months ahead of us.

I dislike arrogant men and diva behavior in either gender.

I am a lot more comfortable, ... There's a difference between arrogance and being confident. I'm not arrogant but I feel a lot more confidence about what I do.

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.

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

I find some of it insulting. It is a little arrogant to say 'I am a designer'. We in the business hold the true idea of fashion closer to our hearts.

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.

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

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.

He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant and we met less and less.

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.

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.

This was one of the most shameful and arrogant acts ever committed against consumers.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I will also call the companies and say, 'I really don't appreciate you sending money to people that are that arrogant about our taxes,'