Quotes of: Pretended Keyword

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, an...

The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don't pay for whatever "government" things YOU want, please don't pretend to be tolerant, or non-violent, or enlightened, or compassionate. Don't pretend you believe in "live and let live," and don't pr...

Larken Rose

We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.

The Dream Thief

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Patti Smith

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Navajo

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Mother Night

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

The Lost Crown

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

Robbie Williams

pretending to be good might be the same with pretending to be right, its just you are selfish on your own because you think only for yourself..

Jinnul Jr.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

David Mamet

Louis: Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires. Claudia: How avant-garde.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

If you want to know who your friends are, lie by the roadside and pretend to be drunk.

Jamaican

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

The Pretend Wife

I am who I pretend to be, and right now I’m pretending to be my own clone.

This Book Has No Title

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Nicholas Meyer

I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

Sam Heughan

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

Mac Thornberry

Being a sci-fi geek, it was just lovely to be on a show where I pretend I'm in outer space. That's always been my dream: to pretend to be out in space or actually be out in space.

Ming-Na Wen

There is a history of gay people pretending to be straight. I want to balance the sides. I'm a straight person pretending to be gay. I've had a lot of people to imitate. It's easy when you're British; we're camp by nature, anyway.

Robbie Williams