Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It's just like an idea, like a chorus, and then we just jam on it - it happens in loads of different… — Luke Pritchard Copy Share Image
It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound pretentious, but you could hire a bunch of monkeys to be on a TV show, and if… — Scott Caan Copy Share Image
"Just to have my kids be in the sun every day-picking avocados, going for a swim," she says. "Even for two years… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. — John Milius Copy Share Image
It was in reading Tristam Shandy that I noticed how it is primarily men who gravitate towards the game-playing self-reflexive style. There… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now, to quote myself… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain.” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole. — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason—his stuff is fun to read... It’s… filled with the freshness… — Kris Saknussemm Copy Share Image
“He told me things about himself that should have made him sound urbane but did the opposite. He told me, for example,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
To me, it's important to preserve proximity to the people. I wouldn't do anything pretentious, and nothing that hurts the people who… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you… — Fritz Maytag Copy Share Image
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
