You are no longer beneath my contempt.

I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It…

— Joan Rivers

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly

“But when a cut is deep, it’s still just flesh beneath.”

— Veronica Rossi

“A book may be not just what it says in the text, but the background beneath it.”

— Angelina Hu

If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's…

— Patti Smith

“Be merciful to him who is beneath you, and you will have mercy from Him who is above you. The”

— John Wortabet

I'm of that generation of Jews still deeply influenced by the Holocaust. Certainly the notion that the state power to kill can be subject…

— Scott Turow

“Far below, the ocean was a bluegray rug being pulled out from beneath us.”

— Roger Zelazny

“Blood is everywhere.. Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks; for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian…

— Munia Khan

“Words never mean anything. Look beneath them.”

— Dot Hutchison

If you put someone above you don't be surprised when they start acting like you're beneath them.

— Sonya Parker

“There is a city beneath the streets”

— Robert E. Sullivan Jr

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we…

— Naomi Benaron

“Young love is a step apart from reality. It paints over the crudities of the world with pretty colors. Only problem is, when you…

— Jennifer Erin Valent

Cesc Fabregas' dead balls have loads of air beneath them.

— Nicklas Bendtner