Perhaps the people I choose to paint are often objects of derision - celebrity is a bit of a put-down term, isn't… — Stella Vine Copy Share Image
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When classical singers or dancers look at cinema with derision, I have half a heart to tell them that they're wrong. They're… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling… — Peter David Copy Share Image
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
“They heard! --they suspected! --they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror!-this I thought, and this I think. But anything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but… — Philip French Copy Share Image
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
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