"There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep."

-- Willie Parker

#Pretending Quotes

“I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.”
“Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.”
“It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.”
“He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.”
“Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.”

Source : "The Colbert Report", May 02, 2011.
“Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.”
“I was not using the gears I usually do for time trials - it was either hard [gear] to pedal, or really low [gear] to pedal; [that] was something special of today.”
“I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.”

Source : "Spock & Sylar - Zachary Quinto On Playing Heroes & Villains". Interview with Bryan Cairns, www.newsarama.com. September 9, 2008.

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