Faux Quotations

I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they're funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.

We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity.

There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president.

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.

We're seeing a real resurgence in the use of wallpaper. For a while it was so out of style that many smaller manufacturers went out of business. The paint and faux finishes just dominated home design; that is no longer the case.

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

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

Luckily for Kerry, there are a number of five-star restaurants in Washington that can prepare gourmet box lunches in case he's forced to make another faux fast-food stop at Wendy's,

One of the distinctive elements is the tongue and groove ceilings. The roofs are designed to look like an inverted Noah's ark. They also have faux columns made of wood but painted to resemble marble, the stone used to build the cathedrals and churches left behind in the old country.

I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me.

I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't.

He does his job just well enough to keep it. The ridiculous exploits and faux pas are just this side of lawsuit territory so he continues to ride the wave of inefficiency and lack of expertise. I don't think that's necessarily unusual that one might be very good at one job and then is promoted, and you have no proficiency whatsoever.

Part of the reason the January barometer works so well is a statistical faux pas. It uses January to predict the year, not the following 11 months.

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

Too many students begin college with faux technology skills, where they have used technology for entertainment and purchasing purposes but haven't used it to the full potential. This is not just a test of technical skills, its students thinking skills within a technological environment.

Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.

The most moving thing in a speech is always the logic. It is never flowery and flourishes. It is not sentimental exhortation, it is never the faux poetry we're all subjected to these days.

This isn't the first instance I've run into where intelligence agencies and the Pentagon and other government agencies have used classification to cover up faux pas. It just galled me.

They've been the cause of many fashion-forward statements and many fashion faux pas.

There's a lot of faux populism. You look at the moneyed interests behind (Schwarzenegger's) measures, behind the (prescription drugs), and you realize this is not just the citizens' voice.

There's a lot of faux populism, ... You look at the moneyed interests behind (Schwarzenegger's) measures, behind the (prescription drugs), and you realize this is not just the citizens' voice.

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.

He's made some faux pas. When he said 'I'm Bob Dole's right arm,' I couldn't believe it.

Gossipers derive pleasure from other people's misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else's personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people.