To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
Humans want to know the hierarchy; it's important for there to be one leader.
American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
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 Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.
All parties have one leader at the top who is the first among equals.
Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.
In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.
The level of real income is not what determines whether they are happy or not. It’s their relative place in the pecking order.
Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.
I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.
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 shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to the most offended.
I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
We are a naturally hierarchical species.
If you're a baboon on the Serengeti, and you're miserable, it's almost certainly because some other baboon has had the free time and energy to devote to making you miserable.
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."
Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.
With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved.
I think kids are all focused on their hierarchy and status, and I was low status or something.
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
