I meditate - very pretentious - and I try to read as much as I can and swim at the Y. — Lucas Hedges Copy Share Image
I was really pretentious in a sense and was like, 'I'm going to drama school to learn the craft.' — Gustaf Skarsgard Copy Share Image
It's not my personality to brag in any way or be pretentious. It's just not my nature. — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. — James Herbert Copy Share Image
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. He crossed out heavy, wrote weighted instead, then decided… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say,… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
“He'll be a minister in Spain some day, or, at the very least, ambassador to Washington, he's exactly the kind of pretentious… — Javier Marias Copy Share Image
“Him,” he points. “With the blue Chucks.” “Unacceptable.” “Pourquoi?” “He’s barn owl-y.” “Fine. Inkblot T-Shirt?” “Pretentious.” “So? I love pretentious people!” “Why?”… — J.C. Lillis Copy Share Image
It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you… — Jean-Benoit Dunckel Copy Share Image
I'm proud of the lyrics because I take a lot of care in writing them. I try to make it so people… — Andrew VanWyngarden Copy Share Image
Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
“The intellectually insecure drop the word “pretentious” to shut down a conversation they don’t understand, when simply saying “I don’t know” or… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“The pretentious flaws of others affirm your own intellectual or aesthetic expertise. Simultaneously, their fakery highlights the contours of your down-to-earth character… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as… — Leroy S Rouner Copy Share Image
