#arrogant

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#compassion #i #long #long time #lot

I'm not leaving, Kitten. You're going to do this." My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing there in all her fuzzy-bunny pajama glory. Oh, for the love of God. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#bonus-points #daemon #embarrassing #funny #katy

This is America. We’re entitled to our opinions.” “Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#arrogant #call-me-irresistible #funny #humour #sep

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#arrogance #arrogant #boasting #bragging #challenges

Why don't you wear those tiny shorts when you run, like they do in the movies?" His voice was low and sexy, and he knew it. "Because I'm not in a movie. I know it's confusing, since you obviously live 'The Saxon Show' day and night, but some of us want to live a boring, old, normal high school life, you know? ↗

— Liz Reinhardt

#bad-boy #double-clutch #funny #love #movies

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

— Tony Blair

#choose #chooses #fails #government #irresponsible

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

— Elliott Gould

#conceited #machinery #more #nothing #other

I did feel Dr. Cox, the character that I was auditioning for, was too similar to the head of the hospital. He was too arrogant and mean. I approached him kind of like I had a miniature Max sitting on my shoulder. I pictured Max saying, "This guy has got to give love every once in a while. He has to!" I knew there had to be tiny little windows of redemption. ↗

— John C. McGinley

#arrogant #auditioning #character #cox #did

The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

#girlfriends #got #like #lot #lots

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith