Pretending Quotes - page 2

You gain power by pretending to be weak. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
There was no use in pretending, No magic left to hear. All the music gave me Was a craving for light beer. View quote
Tom Petty
It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. View quote
Lewis Carroll
I think President Obama is trying to deceive the public in pretending that he was not a part of Congress that has made some decisions in the past that got us to where we are today. View quote
Sarah Palin
The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information. View quote
Vanna Bonta
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay. View quote
Robbie Williams
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice. (Thomas Szasz)
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. View quote
Drew Barrymore
Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. View quote
Akira Kurosawa
I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary. View quote
C. S. Lewis
It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending. View quote
L. Todd Rose
You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat. View quote
Holly Black
We're multigenerational Squires. (Carl) Which means what? You prance around with tinfoil armor and plastic swords pretending to be knights? (Nick) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living. View quote
James Gandolfini
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. (James Gandolfini)
It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be. View quote
John Boyne
As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world. View quote
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer. View quote
Eve Ensler
...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not. View quote
Alice Hoffman