Quotes by Pretentious Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy. Adele pretentious soul sometimes Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician. Anton Szandor LaVey magician sense-of-humor pretentious I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular. Blaise Cendrars pretentious used latin The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me. Bradford Cox pretentious people thinking The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality. Dag Hammarskjold pretentious truth-is simple If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine. Derek Landy pretentious glory long I must have been a really pretentious little girl. Emily Mortimer pretentious girl littles There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back. Frankie Cosmos stressful pretentious people It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that. Fritz Maytag pretentious vocabulary beer America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. Goldwin Smith pretentious ugly-things america We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you. Gwyneth Paltrow pretentious sun thinking She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. Gwyneth Paltrow nannies pretentious teaching It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there. Harry Benson pretentious mature photograph This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. Harrison Birtwistle pretentious sound thinking What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities. Hunter S. Thompson pretentious thieves dull I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do. James Herbert pretentious too-much trying It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself. Jean-Benoit Dunckel stage-fright pretentious scared Don't call me a journalist; I hate the word. It's pretentious! Jimmy Breslin pretentious call-me hate You are only pretentious if you are not sincere. John Hodgman pretentious sincere ifs 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 a room so you're writing to amuse yourself as much as anybody else. John Michael McDonagh pretentious writing sometimes 123»