Quotes About Putting On Airs

#1. I think the thing about it is when you grow up in Chicago there's such a thing as putting on airs, you know? And you just learn not to put on airs. Don't act like, 'Oh boy, I'm somebody.' They'll slap you down.

Bob Newhart

#2. Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

Michael Kinsley

#3. What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

David Duchovny

#4. They could rename this town shithole and be accused of putting on airs.

Brian Haig

#5. Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.

Twiggy

#6. Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for these buildings were little more than tinder and brown paper, putting on airs of architecture.

Robert Charles Wilson

#7. Grumble is the god of henchmen and minions. Once a former lackey himself, after his deification he chose to look over his own people rather than putting on airs.

Drew Hayes

#8. Wrinkled women lifting their faces, chasing their youth.
Fat men sucking in bellies.
Poor folks putting on airs.
Sinners acting like saints.
All of us keeping pace with our companions, stepping lively in this dance of deceit.

Philip Gulley

#9. I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.

John Shelton Reed

#10. I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

Ellen Pompeo

#11. Are you putting on airs?

Masha Gessen

#12. You should appreciate those things while you have them, but you never do. Not all the way. Too busy living. Now and again, you should try to stop to appreciate the little things. They'll build up if you do.

Nora Roberts

#13. I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

Cody Horn

#14. I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Solomon Burke

#15. Well I'm finding it harder
to be a gentleman every day
All the manners that I've been taught
have slowly died away
But if I held the door open for you
It wouldn't make your day.

The White Stripes

#16. We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

Margaret Thatcher

#17. A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

Thomas Merton

#18. Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Shawn Achor