Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them. — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. He crossed out heavy, wrote weighted instead, then decided… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say,… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious? — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged. — Jaime Winstone Copy Share Image
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think… — Yael Naim 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
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce… — Marcel Boulestin Copy Share Image
I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to… — Milo Copy Share Image
It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture,… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end.… — Christian Boltanski 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
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them… — Sam Amidon 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
When I say I want to become a legend, some people say it's pretentious. For me, it's a challenge. My desire, a… — Paul Pogba Copy Share Image
For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now… — Frank Sinatra, Jr Copy Share Image
There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart 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
You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious. — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would… — Isaiah Mustafa Copy Share Image
“Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking… — James Iha Copy Share Image
![“I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these little autobiographical secrets behind things. I think I was really attacking my earlier self, and this kind of pretentious figure.” quote by Billy Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/billy-collins-3004_attacking_i-felt-at-some-point-that-i-had-nothing_2144137.png)
![“For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.” quote by Frank Sinatra, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abc/frank-sinatra-jr-2-31186_father_for-many-many-years-i-wouldn-t-sing-my-w_2217349.jpg)
![“You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.” quote by Gwyneth Paltrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86f/gwyneth-paltrow-1230_balance_you-know-i-use-organic-products-but-i-ge_3141462.jpg)
