Quotes About Being Patronizing

#1. I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.

David Weigel

#2. Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

Brad Bird

#3. I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.

Terry Gilliam

#4. Sites of battle held on to a madness, as if the blood that had soaked into the soil remembered pain and terror and held locked within it the echoes of screams and death cries.

Steven Erikson

#5. When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

John Breaux

#6. I was moving from worried to scared, and I could see terrified waving at me from just around the next bend in the road.

Gini Koch

#7. Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ...

Edith Wharton

#8. I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#9. Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective

Wole Soyinka

#10. The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

Michael Kenny

#11. I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

Yuri Gagarin

#12. Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

Chris Martin

#13. Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

FKA Twigs

#14. Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

Roselyne Bosch

#15. They hate whom they fear.

Quintus Ennius

#16. My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

Erica Jong

#17. To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

Henry Rollins

#18. I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

Dirk Nowitzki

#19. The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

Isaac Asimov

#20. I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.

Helena Bonham Carter

#21. I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.

Tamim Iqbal

#22. Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.

Edward Carey