Quotes About Pretending To Be Busy

#1. I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

Wilford Brimley

#2. Sometimes being in control of everything comes with a lot of challenges.

Arlene Dickinson

#3. To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

Yoko Ono

#4. Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it. They were all in the same building.

Aimee Bender

#5. People of that sort seldom fall ill; they are too busy pretending to be ill.

Elizabeth Peters

#6. Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. I let myself get lost in the fantasies I created when I was looking at the world through my lens. Life was easier to ignore when I was busy pretending for other people.

Claire Contreras

#8. Surely, if my parents and older brother were awake now, that would mean that they would have remembered such an important date and, as soon as they saw me, congratulate me on living another year? Adele Rose, Awakening.

Adele Rose

#9. Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.

David Steel

#10. How come everyone's making like everthing that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

Janne Teller

#11. I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that a human being is emanated from a deity.

Haile Selassie

#12. As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."

Daniel Clowes