“You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?” — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“These were wannabe elites who, once they popped on big-boy pants, would be infiltrating New York with their pretentiousness.” — Alexandra Martin Copy Share Image
“Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Why can’t a musician try to make a cinematic “state of the nation” poem told through dream imagery and pop music? They… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I will never be heard for what I have to say. Why? People like cliches which I find a mediocre bore and… — James Smith (me Copy Share Image
“Such are the inconsistences of humans in uniform, that the same endothermic vertebrates, which were believed a blessing, an aid to nostalgia,… — John Lewis-Stempel Copy Share Image
“Look, you’re right. Maybe I don’t like you the way someone should like you. I don’t like you in the call-you-and-read-you-a-poem-every-night-before-you-go-to-bed way.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Pretension is a question of optics. The pessimist sees pretension as a sham. The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
My son is actually named after Beck, the musician. We heard Beck on the radio and thought that was a good nickname… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“Pretentiousness shares with sophistication a lingering sense of “unnaturalness”; something faked, pretending, tampered with. Litvak presses the idea that sophistication is linked… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
“Not every artist can make a masterpiece, yet it’s the experiments that quietly stumble forward that lead to them. There’s an altogether… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.” — Cato Copy Share Image
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.” — Harry G. Frankfurt Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments. — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to… — Brenda Ueland 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
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
“A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
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