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Quotes About Ignored

Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with senior officers. They had a way of thinking up ideas that got you killed and them promoted.
~ James R. Benn
Judy told me all about you. You're the new guy who's studying Greek with those creepos. Judy? What do you mean, Judy told you about me? She ignored this. You had better watch out, she said. I have heard some weird shit about those people. Like what? Like they worship the fucking Devil. The Greeks have no Devil, I said pedantically.
~ Donna Tartt
I'm fairly bursting tae ken how ye guessed I spoke Scots?' Lymond looked up. Superficial pain, withstood or ignored for quite a long time, had made his eyes heavy, but they were brimming with laughter. 'Well, God,' he said. 'In the water, you were roaring your head off at a bloody bull elephant called Hughie.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The stories had, of course, been offensive and callously insensitive and had largely been ignored by everybody in the country except for those very few millions who were keen on offensive and callously insensitive things.
~ Douglas Adams
He was dismissed, ignored, humored as if he was crazy. An experience like that can break a man.
~ Douglas Preston
The Internet is indeed a non-state form of social control — but one that is severely dysfunctional. The ugliness on the Internet is not white noise. It lasts forever. It cannot be ignored. It causes terrible things happen in the real world. The Internet is a place where our darkest evolutionary biology runs riot.
~ Douglas Preston
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
~ Agatha Christie
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
~ Agatha Christie
It would mean a good film, the story that you have recounted to me there - but it bears no sort of resemblance to everyday life.' 'I admit that I haven't gone into all the details, but-' 'You have gone farther - you have ignored them magnificently.
~ Agatha Christie
If you've been snubbed, or ignored, or frustrated, and your life's pretty drab and empty, I suppose you get a sense of power from stabbing in the dark at people who are happy and enjoying themselves.
~ Agatha Christie
I'm always getting forgotten," said the grizzled doctor sadly. "I must have a very inconspicuous personality.
~ Agatha Christie
Instinct is a marvellous thing," mused Poirot. "It can neither be explained nor ignored.
~ Agatha Christie
The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story and one that we need to know more about.
~ David Levering Lewis
For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.
~ Charles Duhigg
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I don't believe that the Bush Administration had something to do with September 11th. I do believe that there were a lot of warning signals, but I don't think they were ignored on purpose - Bush just wanted to go to the ranch for a month.
~ Michael Moore
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
~ Richard Corliss
I sure got their attention. That's always the first step to solving an ignored problem.
~ Randy Pausch
I won because of the fact that people that are great, great American people have been forgotten. I call them the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. They've been forgotten.
~ Donald Trump
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
~ Billy Collins
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
~ Alexander Theroux
His first determination, in 1843, of the mechanical equivalent of heat was ignored, and subsequent determinations were given little attention until Thomson and Stokes took notice at the British Association meeting in 1847.
~ William H. Cropper
There is, in fact, a rich and informative scientific literature about what works and what doesn't in finance; it is routinely ignored. Instead of depending on the Journal of Finance (the investing equivalent of The New England Journal of Medicine), they get their advice from USA Today or worse, from their stockbroker. Of
~ William J. Bernstein
The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture hall to another reminding audiences while they may be disdained or ignored by the mainstream culture, they are actually right about everything.
~ David Brooks