False Persona Quotes

#1. We were a lot alike. I hid behind a false persona, and he blocked his out.

Nashoda Rose

#2. Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

Owen Feltham

#3. The reason I suggest that one speaks of a false-self system is that the 'personality', false self, mask, 'front', or persona that such individuals wear may consist in an amalgam of various part-selves, none of which is so fully developed as to have a comprehensive 'personality' of its own.

R.D. Laing

#4. When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.

Monique Coleman

#5. On top of this was the official indigenous Egyptian government that, though it was quite toothless, various British officials periodically felt the need to pretend to consult in order to maintain the appearance that the wishes of the actual inhabitants of Egypt somehow mattered.

Scott Anderson

#6. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

Jon Weisman

#7. In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.

Ian Svenonius

#8. I think you're never the same person when you close a book as when you open one; it changes your life very subtly.

Cheryl Tiegs

#9. An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. That's the biggest problem with personas. A false self can never rest. It looks like a real person, but a persona is actually just a hologram, a projected image, and it requires constant energy to keep that image up. A persona is afraid to go to sleep, because to sleep is to die.

Nate Larkin

#11. I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

Jack White

#12. Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.

Hugh Laurie