Pejorative Examples Quotes & Sayings

Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. — Louisa May Alcott

You Griersons are a touchy bunch. One minute it's biscuits and model ships and the next minute it's outrage and horror. — Alden Bell

Travis smiled. So you wanted to be here with me. I think I just fell in love with you all over again. — Jamie McGuire

Get the hell out of Palestine. — Helen Thomas

Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows. — Jaggi Vasudev

Was it designed and constructed by the Egyptians, Satan, gods or aliens, and for what purpose? — Robert Jean Redfern

I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape. — Marilyn Monroe

When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good. — Natalie Zea

It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way-as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it. — Laura Dave

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for. — Joe Murray

I've heard that lawyers' children, on seeing their parents in court in the
heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies, and are surprised to see them often go out arm-in-arm with their tormenters during the first recess. This was not true of Jem and me. We acquired no traumas from watching our father win or lose. I'm sorry that I can't provide any drama in this respect; if I did, it would not be true. We could tell, however, when debate became more acrimonious than professional, but this was from watching lawyers other than our father. I never heard Atticus raise his voice in my life, except to a deaf witness. — Harper Lee

He hadn't been peeping intentionally; he'd been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed. — Amanda Hocking

Black tenants smell and attract vermin. — Donald Sterling

Trivial," he echoed. "Perhaps. Then again, maybe it's all in the way you look at it — Robert Bloch

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City. — Moby