Its quite pretentious, really, isnt it? The notion the audience is going to be interested in you for an hour and a… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
They love a brown rice stir-fry, but they also love their 'Coke of the week...My daughter gravitates toward fresh fruit and raw… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
I think some people have a different idea of what the band Young the Giant is. We're normal guys. We're down to… — Sameer Gadhia Copy Share Image
It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo.… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at… — George Albert Wells Copy Share Image
A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
Beyoncé's like, 'Okay. The singing is great. But you're not having any fun.' She's like, 'Remember when we were at Jay's concert… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I have no rules. For me, it's a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
...Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
