Zoe Foster Blake

I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days.

Australian Author

J. Maarten Troost

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

Dutch Writer

James D. Watson

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.

American Scientist

Arthur Schopenhauer

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

German Philosopher

Bonnie Raitt

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.

American Musician

William Congreve

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

English Poet

Niklaus Wirth

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Swiss Scientist

Peter Baynham

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

Welsh Comedian

June Brown

I'm absolutely pedantic about language; it must go back to my schools.

English Actress

Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Dutch Philosopher

The word 'pedantic' often implies that being detail-oriented is excessive and unwanted.

Negative Connotation

Describing someone as 'pedantic' can suggest you're irritated by their focus on trivia.

Criticism & Irritation

Sometimes 'pedantic' is mistaken for being thorough or meticulous, which can be positive.

Misunderstood Thoroughness

Using 'pedantic' suggests someone is arrogant or showing off about their knowledge.

Arrogance Implication

When someone's speaking pedantically, they might make simple topics too complex and boring.

Unwelcomed Complexity

Being pedantic during casual conversation can create distance and make others uncomfortable.

Social Interaction

 there are all kinds of things that we architects need to learn how to do like managing contracts learning how to write contracts understanding procurement processes understanding the time value of money and cost estimation but I'm going to reduce this to the beginning of the process into three very pedantic

Building a theater that...

 I go to work, I check email, I log onto a few more social sites, I blog, I check more news reports, I share some of those news reports, I go look at some videos, pretty typical day -- in this case, actually fairly pedantic --

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