Quotes About Pretentious

I'm a pretentious coffee snob, and I love Starbucks. Gotta have my skim latte.

It's bad enough when people I know fuck with my life, but when pretentious bass players interfere with my destiny, then I really get pissed.

Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.

There was something pretentious about politics when it was taken to extremes.

Agi como um esnobe, que como vocês devem saber, significa indivíduo sem nobreza.

He saw himself as a hated prier into the homes of strangers, a kind of intellectual charlatan rationalizing his own prurience into scientific curiosity; someone at once lower and more pretentious than a professional social worker.

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

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

He was always too conscious of himself and of the impression he was creating on others – an infallible sign of the vain and the fraudulent.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

She was named Jocaminca fforkes, with two small 'f's - as if having two 'f's wasn't pretentious enough

I see that martial artists and art gallery owners have a few things in common...We both get to say pretentious stuff that sounds way more insightful than it actually is.

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

How am I supposed to look at his SMUG PRETENTIOUS FACE every single day for the rest of my life?

And why was I still here? I felt I was killing time, especially in Russia, which, in spite of all the talk of change and reform, seemed exactly the same place as it had ever been: a pretentious empire with a cruel government that was helpless without secret police.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?

The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong.

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.

The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong. Better

Ed was meant to be on kid duty while she hosted the book club. He'd read the book, but he didn't want to join the club. He said the idea of book clubs brought back horrible memories of pretentious classmates in English Lit. 'If anyone uses the phrases "marvelous imagery" or "narrative arc", slap them for me,' he'd said.

Great American Novel" = "doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.

I love living in Burbank. It has major movie studios, huge media empires, but the city still feels like a mom-and-pop town. It's not pretentious at all. It doesn't feel like a big Hollywood town, and it has every right to be, but it's very friendly and easygoing.