#pretend

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

#end #going #good #i #know

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#anything #calculate #desire #energy #i

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#friends #get #hang #i #i do

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#around #clothes #experts #friend #go

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. ↗

— Martin Short

#family #hotel #i #me #palace

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization. ↗

— J. G. Stedman

#am #amongst #best #case #civilization

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#believe #characters #costume #else #few

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#overcoming-obstacles #pretend #pretentiousness #society #trust

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#believed #closer #get #i #pretending