Pretending Quotes

811 Pretending quotes by 582 unique authors

There's a girl across the bar, I get the message she's sending. Mmm, she ain't looking too married, and me, well, I'm pretending. — Bruce Springsteen
Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're… — Sheryl Sandberg
I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more… — Calvin Harris
Yeah, pretending to ride a horse is actually a lot harder than riding a horse. — Josh Hopkins
The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about… — Jennifer Morrison
There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. — Tom Petty
One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing. — Bryan Adams
Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to. — Catherynne M. Valente
Having a relationship with people of questionable character is like playing with a razor blade on your skin, and pretending to observe that it is… — Michael Bassey
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there… — Thomas Huxley
I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a… — Joseph Bruce
The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of… — Charlize Theron
I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending. — Jamie Bell
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because… — Agatha Christie
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of… — Edmund Burke
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. — Booth Tarkington
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience. — Paul Fussell
Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird,… — Jerry Saltz
When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades. — Dan Aykroyd
I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else. — Spencer Tracy
Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are. — Frederick Lenz
Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information. — Nick Kroll
I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything. — Selima Hill
The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to… — RuPaul
Look at us all - we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into… — Rich Mullins

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