Happy Bastille Day to someone pretentious enough to know what the fuck that is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
Certainly, anybody who says, "in the eyes of God," is pretentious. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to… — Truth Hurts Copy Share Image
To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read.… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I don't like to use the word "tricks" , I do think of them as theatrical pieces, and… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always… — Kandyse McClure Copy Share Image
I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I heard the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
If I said who I was influenced by, it would be really weird and pretentious because it would be people who have… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
“Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down… — Michael Perry 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
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking,… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
“The pretentious flaws of others affirm your own intellectual or aesthetic expertise. Simultaneously, their fakery highlights the contours of your down-to-earth character… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as… — Leroy S Rouner Copy Share Image
I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
I could draw ideas. I remember writing a paper for a seminar class. I remember writing a paper about - and this… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
