Pecking Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality…
— George Clooney
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere…
— Jean Harris
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I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important…
— Richard Branson
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system…
— Larry Speakes
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The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are not to be…
— Hal Porter
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We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central…
— Dwight Yoakam
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As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in the pecking order…
— Bob Sutton
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more…
— Pat Morita
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When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the…
— Corey Feldman
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
— Jonathan Swift
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The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much,…
— Stephen King
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What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not…
— Jeanette Winterson
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
— Lloyd Alexander
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In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts
— Coleman Cox
Who Wrote These Pecking Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Pecking Quotes as follows: