Pretensions To Being Quotes

#1. That all pretensions to being self-made hide the reciprocal truth, that we have unpayable debts to the world around us, to our community, to our forebears, to the ancients, to nature, to the gods.

Lewis Hyde

#2. We all like motorcycles to some degree.

Bob Dylan

#3. I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of pretensions, a lot of the attitude that goes along with it was a little difficult for me to deal with.

Girl Talk

#4. The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo

William Shakespeare

#5. Can't you go tomorrow?' she said. 'No, I can't! The business I'm going for, the warrant and the money, won't have come by tomorrow,' he replied.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

Don Henley

#7. All things, my son, transmute
into old age, life diminishes,
everything declines,
the proliferation/ of kinds is a mere
illusion, and no one
knows to what end.

W.G. Sebald

#8. There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

Bruce Dickinson

#9. I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

Humphrey Bogart

#10. And it was always
without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of
finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#11. I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

John Edgar Wideman

#12. I had a party to plan, reminders to send, some positive PR to get out, L.A. travel plans to take care of and now a bit of a conspiracy to start unraveling.
For starters.
Just another average Sunday with the M10.

Lola Dodge

#13. But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

Anthony Trollope

#14. To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem ... ridiculous.

William Hazlitt

#15. You always forget that it's impossible to grieve every minute of the day. You always forget that a mourning period can include laughter, but just because it's there it won't mean that you're really okay.

Katie Heaney

#16. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen

#17. I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.

Jim Glennon

#18. The future depends on what choices we make....

I. Alan Appt

#19. What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. - Darcy

Jane Austen

#20. I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

Mark Wahlberg

#21. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

John Wilmot