Pretending Quotes · Page 5

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really…

— Janne Teller

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things…

— Peter Boghossian

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

— Ellen Gilchrist

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

— China Mieville

Stop it," he hissed in her ear. "You'll just make it worse for yourself. It's better if you don't look." "Like you…

— Cassandra Clare

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

— Richelle Mead

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having…

— Kurt Cobain

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

— Robert Gottlieb

There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows…

— Anthony Minghella

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending…

— Benjamin Clementine

I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being…

— Neil Gaiman

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

— Drew Barrymore

And I wasnt playing a role I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was…

— Anonymous

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people…

— Abraham Lincoln

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time…

— Paulo Coelho

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously;…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

It's a different thing shooting for 10 weeks in India as opposed to on a set on stage pretending you're in India

— Chris Kattan

Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are.…

— Desmond Tutu

But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and…

— Brad Barkley

There is a problem in pretending I can still control my destiny in the commercial market.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe…

— Alfred Marshall

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by…

— Kenny Hickey

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

— Paulo Coelho