I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me. — Anne Carson 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
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Titles always sound so pretentious, and when I see a comedian, I just want the person to take flight, not stick to… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
Men get together in pretentious councils to decide what God is, what God thinks, what God wants the rest of us to… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format. — Sean Maguire Copy Share Image
Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the… — Hal Borland 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
God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
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
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
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first… — Patricia Briggs 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
I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so… — Thomston Copy Share Image
The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying.… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill.… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“My fear is, what is the larger effect of my book on the world and on the minds of the people who… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I lived in a town called New Canaan, which is just outside of Connecticut, where they are far too snobby to even… — Katherine Heigl 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
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
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think you make the movie in your head that you have to make, and you have to get it out of… — Ti West 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
The first red carpet I did was at New York's Paris Theatre... It was this beautiful night, and everyone is screaming my… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got… — William Empson Copy Share Image
What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It sounds stupid, but there's nothing like walking down the street and seeing a building that's older than 100 years old. I… — Christian Cooke 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
If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a small child, Ive had this feeling - its in my nature, and so its not even pretentious… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting… — John Michael McDonagh Copy Share Image
I was never afraid of getting old. I remember being young and thinking, Wow, I can't wait until I'm older because I… — Mario Sorrenti 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
