Mockingly Quotes

#1. Could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink your aspirations before your very eyes.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. My father toasted me mockingly with his glass. "Then eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die."

"Next week," Hades interrupted.

Zeus glowered at him. "Yes, obviously, but I was using a metaphor."
"No," his brother replied. "You were paraphrasing. Badly.

Tellulah Darling

#3. I asked Anne to make me a dress that looked innocent, which made her eyebrows pucker.
"You make it sound like we've been sending you out in lingerie," she said mockingly.

Kiera Cass

#4. Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep. She made it shake with emotion. She laughed mockingly and sobbed wildly when the occasion required.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#5. Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.

Mason Cooley

#6. Harry Potter. But Dumbledore won't always be there to protect you." Harry looked mockingly all around the shop. "Wow . . . look at that . . . he's not here now! So why not have a go? They might be able to find you a double cell in Azkaban with your loser of a husband!

J.K. Rowling

#7. I don't hear peeing," Jamie said mockingly.
"Eat me," I muttered.
"What's that?"
"Leave me," I said louder.

Michelle Hodkin

#8. Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Anna Quindlen

#9. For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There

Mary Renault

#10. I believe firmly in the value of all vulgar notions, especially of vulgar jokes. When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. But he became known as a bad luck ship, mockingly called the Pariah.

Robin Hobb

#12. Like millions of others, he mockingly calls himself, in evocative modern street slang, a diaosi, the term for a loser that literally translates as "male pubic hair".

Anonymous

#13. We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Ariel Sharon

#14. The real satire starts when I'm shockingly mocked,not mockingly shocked.

Munia Khan

#15. Why do you care? I've ignored you for days."
His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.

Sophie Jordan

#16. But how glum he looks now." She threw some daisies at him. Then, after a pause, she added mockingly: "It's hunger, my dear. Good Lord, how dependent men are on food!

John Dos Passos

#17. He mockingly gave her the raised eyebrow back. "You never gave me an answer."
"Yeah. I did. In fact, my exact words were 'no'."
"Yes, but I've chosen to ignore that until I hear what I want.

Shelly Laurenston

#18. You have that look on your face," she whispered mockingly, "that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin'-library look and now she's going to spin around like she can read them all at once through osmosis.

Victoria Kahler

#19. When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#20. few years after Ball was herded south, a slave trader marched a coffle past the US Capitol just as a gaggle of congressmen took a cigar break on the front steps. One of the captive men raised his manacles and mockingly sang "Hail Columbia," a popular patriotic song.

Edward E. Baptist

#21. This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

Bede Griffiths

#22. With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.

Robert Scoble

#23. Clearing his throat, Kai murmured, "You have no idea how to dance, do you?"
Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. "I'm a mechanic."
His eyebrows raised mockingly. "Believe me, I noticed. Are those grease stains on the gloves I gave you?

Marissa Meyer

#24. In every situation, feel before acting, just for a second. Look for a feeling.

Frederick Lenz

#25. When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

John Calvin

#26. Don't. I'm all sweaty and bloody," I protested.
"Heavens, not sweat and blood," he replied mockingly. I managed to smile. Smartass vampire.

Jeaniene Frost

#27. See, this is the other side of the coin. This is a girl's downfall. The guy goes soft in the head and starts talking to her like a moron and she wants to take care of him. He's just cuddly fool who can't make it without her.

Tim Tharp

#28. If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

Craig S. Keener

#29. She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

Kurt Vonnegut

#30. The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

Richard Stallman

#31. I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

#32. A leader without followers is just a person walking around.

Linda Galindo

#33. Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

Howard Schultz

#34. It's Magnus Bane." He grinned at Alec mockingly. "Rhymes with 'overcareful pain in the ass'.

Cassandra Clare

#35. Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

Seneca The Younger

#36. The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

Carl Bernstein