When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to…

When you come out, they automatically want to say what you are and compare you to somebody. They want to give title immediately rather…

— Ciara

I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.

— Mark Thomas

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

— Anonymous

I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the burden since…

— Oliver Cowdery

I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if you'd loved…

— Caio Fonseca

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe…

— Lisa Scottoline

This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art,…

— Anton Chekhov

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases…

— Alfred Tarski

“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse…

— Samuel Johnson

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

— Booth Tarkington

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan

Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!

— Moliere

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are…

— Richard Whately

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore