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I never pretended to be a great actor.
I've never pretended to be a supermodel.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Left and right in Italy, they've always pretended to fight.
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.
I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
If I pretended to be confident all the time, that would just be a lie.
But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
My cooking is incredibly haphazard, but I've never pretended it was anything else.
I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
In my screen test for 'Hanna,' I sort of pretended I was this sporty person when I really wasn't.
I've never been a business person, nor have I ever pretended to understand the first thing about it.
I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
At 15, I did a ouija board with my best friend. I pretended I was possessed by a ghost, and she believed it.
At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me.
I pretended to be super-cool and not be bothered by things and play off any kind of heartache when I was younger, for sure.
Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I've been doing that ever since.
I've been fat my whole life and pretended I don't mind. But I do mind. It's really stupid that I've gone on being greedy and fat.
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.
I had my own Land of Lost Sidekicks, where I pretended I lived in Paris with my best friend, a little cowboy based on a Marky Maypo doll.
I was always myself. I never pretended I'd been to a gig the night before and was hanging out with Rita Ora, because that's not what I do.
As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
I do not have a bride gene. I haven't been planning a wedding since I was 3. I never put a sheet on my head and pretended that it was a veil.
Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.
When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.
I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.
This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.
When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everyone from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn.
The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney!
I've certainly always had a very high regard for Botswana and so I paint a very good picture of the country and I've never pretended to be painting an entirely realistic picture.
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?
One of the reasons I wear No. 2 is because of him. Yeah, he was ultimate team guy. He was a winner. And just a good guy for a kid to look up to. And I always pretended to be Jeter.
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.