Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
I've never been what they call a 'pure gallerist.' I find that somewhat pretentious, honestly - I'm an art dealer. I like… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine.… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“Admit it or not, you care about what others think about you. People who declare they don't are more likely pretentious. You… — Grace Scott Copy Share Image
I've been accused of being pretentious and insufferable, and I don't really know what I can say about that. I never got… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
I was a pretentious teenager, so of course I had, you know, 'Raging Bull' posters and all of that. 'Raging Bull' is… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
“Ed began explaining this Yo La Tengo thing, how he was listening to a record of theirs, on vinyl he emphasized, and… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Music is one of my big interests - I once had a rather fanciful ambition to be a singer - and of… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to… — Truth Hurts Copy Share Image
I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I love driving at Monaco but the rest of it, well, I can absolutely take it or leave it. It's extremely pretentious… — Mark Webber Copy Share Image
There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films like parody, pretentious art films that kind of… — Andy Milonakis Copy Share Image
Alan Rickman, who was mentored me a lot. He was very keen to offer his opinions on stuff. Not in a pretentious… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by… — John Hyams Copy Share Image
Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Titles always sound so pretentious, and when I see a comedian, I just want the person to take flight, not stick to… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me. — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
