Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Taylor didn’t know how the woman stood being the center of so much derision.” — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Lilac makes on occasion a sound between a sniff and a snort that's as damning as all improper words in the language… — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or… — Dean Koontz 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
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin 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
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
The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children any way they could By… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Whenever the party-girl tag gets attached to my name, it makes me want to snort with derision. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
“There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.” — Gordon R. Dickson Copy Share Image
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place… — Theo Hutchcraft Copy Share Image
When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
