My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to… — Moliere 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
“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I have not come to seek place, nor to interfere with the business and calling of those men who have borne the… — Oliver Cowdery Copy Share Image
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension,… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. — Alex Winter Copy Share Image
What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things"… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. — William James Copy Share Image
I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
