Pretentious Quote by Julian Barnes Download Open image “Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?” — Julian Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretentious Thought provoking Youth
I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and… — Edgar Wilson Nye Copy Share Image
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is uninhibited by… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special… — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes 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 alone in… — John Michael McDonagh Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul…it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And,… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
If we wanted to make it the way I imagined I knew that we would have to wake up earlier and start very early.… — Luc Besson Copy Share Image
“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off… — Truth Hurts 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 earth is… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge. — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever. — Rex Reed Copy Share Image
