Pretends Quotes

107 quotes by 99 authors

Whatâ€™s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody… — Nicholas Meyer
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. — Johan Huizinga
One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth. — Solomon
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law… — Al Capone
Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. — Alex Flinn
I've done things that can be made fun of. It's not such a bad thing. If I'm going to end up a role model, then… — Fiona Apple
I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the… — Craig Ferguson
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of… — Eckhart Tolle
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. — William Blake
What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade.… — Joy Williams
I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be. — Joe Budden
One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style — Cary Grant
The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions. — Nicolas Gomez Davila
I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary. — Dean Ambrose
Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or… — Anuj
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair. — Martial
Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the… — Vaclav Havel
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes… — Bob Dylan
When he pretends to flee, do not pursue. — Sun Tzu

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