Faux Quotes - Page 2

• The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

  Wilson Mizner

  Wisdom, Differences, Bars

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.

  Peter Thiel

  Photography, Optimistic, Player

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.76, Crown Business

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• There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

  Neil Strauss

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Order

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• A fashion faux pas is what happens when you're not confident with yourself.

  Loulou de la Falaise

  Fashion, Happens, Faux Pas

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• Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures, others that their boss had it in for them, and others yet that they were sure their career ended because of a stupid faux pas they made at the company picnic.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Stupid, Careers

  Harvey Mackay (2004). “We Got Fired!: . . . And It's the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us”, p.51, Ballantine Books

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• We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

  Toni Morrison

  Media, Fake, News

  Source: wordmag.com

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• A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Mean, Artist, Makeup

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My biggest faux pas is not giving time for myself.

  Donna Karan

  Giving, Giving Time, Faux Pas

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?

  Robert Lipsyte

  Team, Cutting, Player

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• Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

  Camille Paglia

  Inspiration, Needs, British

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• Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

  Richard Overy

  Hunting, Fur, Togas

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• Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.

  Rockmond Dunbar

  Real, Humanity, Grounded

  Source: collider.com

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• The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Dream, Men

  Frank Schaeffer (1982). “A time for anger: the myth of neutrality”, Good News Publishers

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• The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of 'the troops,' everything that Iraq has come to represent in the American imagination - it all melts away in the 115-degree heat. What's left is the machinery of a war that, having been called into being by civilians, no longer bears a relation to anything they say.

  Lawrence Kaplan

  War, Names, Iraq

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• The media tries to destroy Republicans who make little faux pas and they start telling everybody how dumb and stupid or uncaring they are. They're so self-absorbed, so selfish and so forth. With Obama, it's always, "There's nothing to see here, because he's a dream of a guy to begin with" and all that. "He missed the Gulf of Mexico? So what! He thinks there are 57 states? Big deal! At least he's trying; at least he cares," is the way it goes.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Stupid, Selfish

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.

  Mary Roach

  Imbeciles, England, Twenties

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Deep Thought, Rosary, Done

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

  David Bowie

  Scotland, Fantasy

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• Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

  Dennis Lehane

  Fiction, I Can

  "A life in writing: Dennis Lehane". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2009.

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• But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Real, Fur, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental.

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Fundamentals

  "Ghost Town - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• In a safe Western world where we're not being shot at and we're not starving, the worst thing that happens to us most days is someone's rude to us, or we accidentally insult someone. Social faux pas is the worst thing that happens to most people, most days, so we've got to concentrate on that, really.

  Ricky Gervais

  People, Rude, World

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

  Ricky Gervais

  Witty, Stars, Home

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Drunk, Freedom Of Speech

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2011.

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