Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

- Donald Judd

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

- Danny Boyle

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

- John Shirley

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

- Neil Cavuto

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

- Peter Jackson

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

- William Thomas