Top 40 Contrived Quotes

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you’re given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Personality is everything that’s false in a human: everything that’s been added on to him and contrived.

My records do not require a lot of thought of ‘What is this?’ and ‘What is that?’ That would be too contrived for me.

I’m a socially concerned citizen of India. I have strong views on issues of social and political relevance. But it’s very difficult to voice it in an intelligent manner without it sounding contrived. Because people think you’re saying or doing all this as a PR exercise, not from your heart.

The very nature of the government, and the direction it’s been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to ‘Spaceballs,’ then it’s just kind of contrived.

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated – curated, contrived, edited. I think that’s a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

I love diamond jewellery on men, and pocket scarves, cravats, cufflinks. The trick is to throw it together so it’s natural and not contrived. That’s real style.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn’t be any good.

I don’t really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn’t honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don’t write about stuff going on in my life and how I’m feeling?

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to sing. We wrote our own material, chose our producers.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It’s not contrived.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn’t want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on ‘The Voice.’

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

I don’t know if it’s because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can’t stand contrived dialogue anymore.

I never liked dance photography; it’s very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Old school fans are going to be shocked at just how much of the pro wrestling they grew up watching was, indeed, contrived, manipulated or, as it’s called in the business, ‘worked.’

Your look shouldn’t be contrived.

I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of writing.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn’t something that was fake or contrived as I got older.

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

That’s what has always been so surprising for The Seekers – when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing together.

Democrats can hardly stand on principle regarding election year nominations when they were more than willing to engage in a partisan, election-year impeachment fiasco based on a contrived pretext that had no chance of prevailing.

I read contrived memoirs by presidential candidates. For every ‘Dreams From My Father’ – Barack Obama’s honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing – there were a dozen cautious, formulaic vanity projects by politicians.

The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man’s look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.

It’s not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it’s real. If it’s contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can’t filter out the real and unreal.

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.