Sarcastic Pretentious Quotes

#1. General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

James Longstreet

#2. First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.

Lee Child

#3. Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

Mary Engelbreit

#4. I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Harold Bloom

#5. Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#6. It ended up being a great quarter across the country. The national trend was more on the IT (information technology) side of things. When you look at Southern California and San Diego specifically, it's driven largely by the life sciences and biotech side of things.

Don Williams

#7. From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.

Steven Sinofsky

#8. Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.

Jim George

#9. Boston is the engine of the state's economy.

Thomas Menino

#10. The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Steven Magee

#11. There should always be one person in this world that loves you unconditionally. And that's YOU. #SelfLove

Nakia R. Laushaul

#12. On the first tee I kept telling myself, "Trust yourself, you can do it."

Annika Sorenstam

#13. My career decisions have nothing to do with my personal life.

Justin Timberlake