It’s a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be… — Yip Harburg

I believe it was Today show fourth–hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, ‘If drag queens love you, you’ll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.’ — Kathie Lee Gifford

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. … We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics. — Thomas Sowell

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar. — John Mellencamp

I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes–I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses. — Aidan Turner

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? — Pope Paul Vi

According to a new report, more than 700 fake Obamacare websites have been created. Security experts say it’s simple to identify the phony sites because they are easy to log on to. — Jay Leno

One of Obama’s most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won’t waste time with the phony rituals of Washington. — Ron Fournier

I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies–I felt like saying ‘Howdy cousin,’ to everybody who walked by. — Gary Reilly

The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn’t care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time. — Jimmy Johnson

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it. — Bradford Dillman

Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don’t manage don’t know what’s going on. It’s a phony separation that people are making between the two. — Henry Mintzberg

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just… ugh, you know? — Alan Ball

I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony. — Larry Holmes

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man–made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it. — James Inhofe

Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it–or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars. — Mark Steyn

You watch these phony networks, and dishonest networks, who are 100 percent about Hillary Clinton. She’s got nothing going. The only thing she’s got going is the media. — Donald Trump

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony. — Bob Dylan

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies. — Bette Davis

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it’s just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else. — Zooey Deschanel

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony. — Barry Hannah

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ”achieve” or feel insecure if people tune–in to you and what you are doing. — Ken Keyes Jr.

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don’t be afraid of being up–front about your feelings and your life. I’d rather be an honest friend than a phony lover. — Minka Kelly

I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. — Newt Gingrich

Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony. — Anton Szandor Lavey

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are. — Brennan Manning

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field. — Vida Blue

What I don’t like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, ‘Teach me mysticism.’ It’s a joke. — Elie Wiesel

Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information. — Jay Leno

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. — Kenzaburo Oe

It’s like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I’m so not that. I never was that; I’ll never be that. That is part of the business that I don’t like. — Chloe Sevigny

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you’d have these stupid one–liners–which I loathed–and I always felt phony doing them. — Pierce Brosnan