Pretending Quotes · Page 20

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. That is the way…

— Neil Gaiman

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

— James Taylor

Before Kiki and I headed toward the Keep, I thanked my friends. “For what? We didn’t do anything,” Janco grumbled. “For caring…

— Maria V. Snyder

You're all Buddhas, pretending not to be. You're all the Christ, pretending not to be. You're all Atman, pretending not to be.…

— Marcus Thomas

The loneliness sets in. When the feelings return, she is overcome with panic, pain, and desperation. She is convinced she is going…

— Superman

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

— Jodi Picoult

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in…

— Anonymous

What are we afraid of? We're afraid of the truth. We're pretending that we live in a democracy, and we're pretending we're…

— Jodie Evans

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

— Anna Paquin

“I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.”

— Sarah Miller

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them…

— Anonymous

You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen…

— Rider Strong

I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars...

— Charlie Sheen

“Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.”

— Simona Panova

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he…

— George Bernard Shaw

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

— James Altucher

“In a fallacious world where we live; it is much easy to create a God rather than pretending to find one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more…

— Jeff Lindsay

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

— Lincoln Peirce

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

— Luke Mably

When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear…

— Thomas Frank

The problem is there's a new group. I'm talking about this tiny slice of people that have gotten way too fired up…

— Aziz Ansari

“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer…

— John Oliver

Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are…

— Sheryl Sandberg