Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.
The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
Richard: Everybody just pretend to be normal.
I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.
This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
I can't even pretend to play golf.
I'm Jewish; I'm not religious at all, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Catholic politics.
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow ...
I had lunch with my brothers,” Mark said, his face serious. “While you were still asleep. They told me. About Corey and that stupid set-up you agreed to where you’d pretend not to be my wife . . .” “I never agreed to pretend not to be your ...
Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands mu...
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was _not_ like mine. I have no real frame of reference, but when I question strangers I've found that their childhood generally had much less blood in it, and also that stranger...
No," I replied testily. "I'm pretty sure 'digital' is Latin for 'fingeral,' so finger cancer equals digital cancer. This is all basic anatomy, Dr. Roland." The Dr. Roland told me that he thought I was overreacting, and the "fingeral" wasn't even a re...
Jiji: [after losing the toy cat doll intended for Ket in a forest, Kiki decides to place Jiji inside the cage so that Kiki can retrieve the real item without further agitating the crows] You gotta be kidding! Kiki: You can just pretend to be the doll...
Polexia Aphrodisia: [to William watching Penny Lane] Act One, in which she pretends she doesn't care about him. Polexia Aphrodisia: [sees Russell strumming his guitar and staring at Penny] Act Two, in which he pretends he doesn't care her, but he goe...
I'd love to wrap myself inside your sadness and pretend it is mine
... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...
Either way, it happened, and everyone was going to pretend that it didn't.
There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.
