#pretend

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ↗

— Colin Hay

#anyone #connection #doubt #else #fancied

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. ↗

— J. Milton Hayes

#eye #five #god #green #had

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#because #did #died #fake #i

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#contents #creates #greater #itself #much

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

#attitude #choice #imagination #inspiration #life

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dumb #old #old age #only #pretend

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#elements #i #just #music #pretend

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #assert #beliefs #body #consciousness

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation. ↗

— Ida Lupino

#cooperation #did #got #i #know

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#bugs #diamond #fingers #hold #i