Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers. — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck! — Euripides Copy Share Image
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype. — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been. — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat. — Leon Blum Copy Share Image
“And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. ” — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Pop music has progressed. The singing voice has changed dramatically in pop music, and people now just sing the way they want… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties,… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine.… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense… — Dwight Macdonald Copy Share Image
. . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“The will to live, was his thought, and the thought was accompanied by a sneer.” — Jack London Copy Share Image
“New ideas are delicate. They can be crushed easily. New ideas can be killed by a sneer or a yawn . . . or… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time. — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image