Faux Quotes

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. - Eric Ross

We want it to be a museum for faux. - Adrienne Van Dooren

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. - Terry Egan

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. - Matthew Aid

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

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

Some resemble well-appointed banks, complete with faux leather business chairs, The Check Cashing Store. - Howard Karger

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and addressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. On a roller coaster. At a movie. Still, it would always be that kind of faux excitement because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention. - Chuck Palahniuk

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. - John Bollinger