Quotes About Poseurs

#1. If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

Mark Mothersbaugh

#2. Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

Frank Herbert

#3. The West has its share of liars and poseurs, the ablest of whom congregate in government.

Ilana Mercer

#4. 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

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

Quentin Tarantino

#6. At a time when 20% of people in the US go to bed hungry each night and almost 50% of the world's population is malnourished, choosing to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat is better for all of us-ourselves, our loved ones, and our planet.

Dean Ornish

#7. Always remember who you are. Know that you are never required to apologize to anyone for being yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

#8. I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

Mother Teresa

#9. I was glad to be rid of him. He was one of those people who could go to New York and be "fascinating," but here in his own world he was just a cheap functionary, and a dull one at that.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#11. Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

Bill Walton

#12. The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask.
"What does it feel like?

Alexandra Bracken

#14. Deliver me from my disciples!

Oscar Wilde

#15. I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

Don Johnson

#16. We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things ...

Jonathan Safran Foer

#17. Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages.

Galileo Galilei