Pedantic Quotes
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest.
I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.
Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?
But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.
