#pretentious

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#becoming #entertainment #first #first of all #great

There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the soul of the great blazing sun there were complicated superhuman vibrations [connected] ... with the feelings of a few intellectual sages who had enough imagination to recognise the conscious personality of this fiery orb as it flung far and wide its life-giving magnetic forces. Roaring, cresting, heaving, gathering, mounting, advancing, receding, the enormous fire-thoughts of this huge luminary surged relentlessly to and fro, evoking a turbulent aura of psychic activity. ↗

— John Cowper Powys

#mystical #pretentious #imagination

I must have been a really pretentious little girl. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#girl #i #little #little girl #must

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself. ↗

— John Hughes

#pretention #pretentiousness #respect #restaurants #snobbery

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! ↗

— David Eddings

#certain #conscience #gesture #i #like

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#bit #did #first #get #i

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#books #go #i #i love #like

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#epic #epic poem #i #most #poem

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#filmmakers #find #i #lot #make

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#available #bars #complex #feel #hip