Quotes About Poseur

#1. I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Dhani Harrison

#2. The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death.

Mark Steyn

#3. He was incredibly phony, a complete poseur... He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn't. He was a marketing guy, and that is what marketing guys are: paid poseurs.

Walter Isaacson

#4. Tall, black-haired, rouged, Kaiser-moustached, he cackled and screamed in weird attitudes, giggling in high soprano, hiding his little black teeth behind an exquisitely gloved hand - the 'poseur' absolute. He was said to have slept with Sarah Bernhard and vomited for a week afterwards.

William Sansom

#5. Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

John Mayer

#6. While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Michelle Malkin

#7. Give me a defiant poseur over a trendsetter any day. The poseur understands the absurdity of trends

Dean Cavanagh

#8. Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

Vance Havner

#9. I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out 'Depeche Mode.'

Brian Posehn

#10. If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling, even if the modern professional intellectual, a poseur by nature, has yet to discover this.

Mark Helprin

#11. But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.

Quentin Tarantino

#12. Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

William Shakespeare

#13. I hope you theorists know what you're doing.' 'I can assure you that we don't. The geometry is still beyond us. All I learnt in the void was that our best guess so far is certainly wrong.

Greg Egan

#14. People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!

Linda Masemore Pirrung

#15. The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

John Strachan

#16. I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

Ian McLagan

#17. I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.

Louise Nurding

#18. It's his last thrill and his last sting of love, as fresh and painful as youth transplanted over time and an ocean. There is nothing left for him now except to die, but that will take a while because he is a creature of habit, and he has got into the habit of being alive.

Ann-Marie MacDonald