All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Kindness is an extraordinary moment and status even if it has to be pretending.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
I'm tired of crying. I'm tired of yelling. I'm tired of being sad. I'm tired of pretending. I'm tired of being alone.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But that’s only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to… — Angela Thomas Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
