#pretentious

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#idiots #impress #infested #jargon #our

Wow. I am really pretentious. ↗

— Rob Corddry

#i #i am #pretentious #really #wow

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

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

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#argue #being #country #fact #hip

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker. ↗

— John Milius

#filmmaker #films #more #nothing #pretentious

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden. ↗

— John Milius

#felt #heavy #i #just #leaden

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#because #blinds #burn #fact #interesting

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays… ↗

— Stephen Fry

#humour #pretentiousness #university #music