Pretend Quotes

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.

I don't really want to get married to get married pretend.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys.

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.