Access to communication in the widest sense is access to knowledge, and that is vitally important for us if we are not to go on being despised or patronized by condescending sighted people. We do not need pity, nor do we need to be reminded that we are vulnerable. We must be treated as equals — and communication is the way we can bring this about.
Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty. ' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.
You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors. " Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.
I think clearly Europe has a lot to worry about. When I was working at the CIA - and I always worked with a lot of European services - they always were very condescending toward the United States, saying that we are so racist vis-à-vis blacks and other people.
I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.
I've gotten "condescending" a million times, and that's not good.
No, Elenore's something else. You're beautiful. Especially when you look at me with that 'boy he's a condescending asshole' expression. . . . Yea. Beautiful.
I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and for American feminism, it not so surprisingly continues to center Western feminism and American feminism. And I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.
I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.
I really think suicide has a branding problem because it has a tagline. It has a catch phrase, and I bet a lot of us know it. It sucks. It's really condescending. I bet we've heard it. Suicide - the coward's way out.
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.
Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.
It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.
