Top 171 Faux Pas Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
I like high fantasy as much as the next guy, but I also like a bit of grit and grime with my faux-medieval trappings.
On ne na|"t pas femme: on le devient. One is not born a woman: one becomes a woman.
Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
Nos beaux sentiments ne sont-ils pas les poe sies de la volonte ? Aren't our best feelings poetry of the will?
People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
Silent people are dangerous; others are not so.
[Fr., Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux;
Il n'en est pas ainsi des autres.]
At times truth may not seem probable.
[Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
Faux-freckles are definitely a James Charles touch to any makeup look. I love adding them and have seen so many other people start trying them as well! They're so cute!
I've always talked a lot on stage - I really wanted to communicate my ideas and when you're playing at a lot of shitty punk clubs they don't have good PAs and so no one knows what you're singing about.
Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style.
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.
From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.
Every moment of life is a step toward the grave.
[Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]
I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les ?tudier telles qu'elles sont.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage
D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
My approach to beauty is 'less is more,' but I usually wear a pinky-nude lip color, like my Pas du Tout.
Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.
You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I've met faux queens. I've met kings. Anything that you want can be considered drag in the context.
I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.
A fool has not material enough to be good.
[Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]
Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.
There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.
Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?
[Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
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.
Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.
I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again.
She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.
C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.
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.
I love wearing black, especially leather or even faux leather! It just adds edge and a sense of class and maturity to your outfit!
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
[Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]
Some of the Christopher Guest movies, when I'm not really like myself, when I have my hair dyed blonde or had a faux-hawk haircut. Those I like to watch because it takes you away from your real self.
But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
[Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]
Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.
Do not limp before the lame.
[Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.]
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.
Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.
If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race.
I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.
Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)
Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.
We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain.
[Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]
Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's head on the wall.
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.
Exactitude is not truth.
[Fr., L'exactitude n'est pas la verite.]
It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development.
