#pretentious

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#avoid #because #certain #cool #cup

There are so many people out there who would love for you to act in a manner that flatters and suits them the best, instead of loving you for who you really are. ↗

— POB Bismark

#change #flattery #real #unpretentious #change

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#humility #kitchen #kitchen-table #parliament #philosophical

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#existed #hadn #horribly #i #invented

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#because #feel #flash #i #i do

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#becoming #entertainment #first #first of all #great

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#believe #bit #could #i #just

I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. ↗

— Emily Watson

#child #grew #i #lot #loved

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#came #characters #how #i #kind

There occurred within a causal radius of Brandon Station one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause. In the soul of the great blazing sun there were complicated superhuman vibrations [connected] ... with the feelings of a few intellectual sages who had enough imagination to recognise the conscious personality of this fiery orb as it flung far and wide its life-giving magnetic forces. Roaring, cresting, heaving, gathering, mounting, advancing, receding, the enormous fire-thoughts of this huge luminary surged relentlessly to and fro, evoking a turbulent aura of psychic activity. ↗

— John Cowper Powys

#mystical #pretentious #imagination