Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“And there’s your pecking order of unhappiness, right there in a nutshell. Of all the overwhelming compulsions you can be ruined by,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“See, we're intellectual equals. I am as smart as your mother, and she is as smart as me. This is a problem.… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
I moved around a lot as a kid, and was always the new kid in town. I was always having to confront… — Ryan Bingham Copy Share Image
'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in… — Bob Sutton Copy Share Image
Most interracial commercials on TV are produced to provide white Americans with a sense of comfort that in the face of changing… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Yaya was much better than Sergio Busquets at Barcelona. But he was behind him in the pecking order and he found that… — Kolo Toure Copy Share Image
“The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Most people measure themselves against someone or something and then fight their inner doubts to believe they, too, have what it takes… — Stephan Bauman Copy Share Image
“In fact, we owe the expression “pecking order” to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe,… — Jennifer Ackerman Copy Share Image
Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It… — Al Gini Copy Share Image
“Mild-mannered Abe, however, is Tarzan of the traffic jungle. He knows the strict species pecking order: pedestrians are on the bottom and… — Sarah Macdonald Copy Share Image
“This, no doubt, was the call 33 had heard. Bored with his balanced diet of maize and maple peas, tired of the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“Once you gave up the nervous craving to promote yourself, denigrate others, draw attention to your unique and special qualities, and ensure… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have no qualms about doing a character who may be below the lead in the pecking order, whether it's a hero… — Tovino Thomas Copy Share Image
“To identify and isolate his perceived political enemies, Kim Il Sung created a neofeudal, blood-based pecking order in 1957. The government classified… — Blaine Harden Copy Share Image
“Gabe leaned down, whispered in her ear. "The U.S. Marshal Service is at the top of the law-enforcement pecking order, outranking everyone,… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
“...generals outrank colonels who, in turn, outrank majors and captains and lieutenants, and everyone, but everyone, outranks children. Within the ranks of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
