Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Right.” His voice was condescending. Asking Marcus to not worry about me was like asking the sun not to rise the next… — Nicole Grane Copy Share Image
“I say,” he said. “What’s all this?” A man of fine breeding. Condescending even after death.” — O.M. Grey Copy Share Image
“I'd tell you to shove your condescending tone up your ass, but a big stick got there first. ” — Dawn Jayne Copy Share Image
“How could someone so rude, condescending, and assholish have this effect on me? Was assholish even a word?” — lyra parish Copy Share Image
I don't believe in condescending to children. I don't change any writing technique. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Hmm. I really hope I don’t sound condescending—that means talking down to someone—but, you know, you really shouldn’t believe everything you think.” — Suzanne Wright Copy Share Image
If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and… — Andrea Brown Copy Share Image
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I learned how my childhood had led me to be comfortable with confrontation and insensitive to those with less power. I came… — Gagan Biyani Copy Share Image
“Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
I first became interested in style when I was 16 and I had my first couple of gigs. I realised I couldn't… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“If they’re letting her cry anyway, I don’t really see the point of the baby monitor, but that’s one of those questions… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you… — Magnus Scheving Copy Share Image
A conventional person can be restrained by the prejudices of its tradition. Convention has too many prejudicial restraints. But unconventional is good,… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
Opening things up not closing them off is my job. I'm doing that for my reader. You know, Bob Gottlieb always says,… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“You are young, child. You have much to learn about the ways of the world-' 'Do not,' Rhys said with deadly quiet,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“In a way, I owe the invitation to the incredible, abysmal, and really cowardly obtuseness of white liberals. Whether in private debate… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending. — Sherry Stringfield Copy Share Image
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time. — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
No, Elenore's something else. You're beautiful. Especially when you look at me with that 'boy he's a condescending asshole' expression…Yea. Beautiful. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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