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Quotes About Dismissal

Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.
~ Adrienne Gusoff
I was chastised for writing several obituaries for Malcolm X, exploring different aspects of his writing. One teacher in particular told me, didn't I think I was beating a dead horse? and dismissively threw my paper on my desk.
~ Ntozake Shange
I was going to be in an acting school in London, and then I promptly got thrown out of an acting school in London. Well, it wasn't that I got thrown out as much as I was not invited back, which is the same thing, just more polite.
~ Chris Eigeman
When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.
~ Sara Ahmed
Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an agency that this dismissal rather ironically reveals. We can respond to the accusation with a "yes.
~ Sara Ahmed
We are dismissed as emotional. It is enough to make you emotional.
~ Sara Ahmed
1957, coldly stating that they would not need her services
~ Sara Paretsky
From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
~ Dean Koontz
Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.
~ Morris Graves
Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
~ Donald Trump
But why bother? So cold. A woman's life dismissed in three words.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
He would be sad to learn that she had dismissed God long ago, as she would have dismissed an inept servant.
~ Margaret Weis
She could not be silent even if the men of science, many of them smug experts in white lab coats who promised "better living through chemistry," dismissed her warnings as feminine hysteria.
~ Mark Hamilton Lytle
Todos os dias acordava, ficava um bocadinho na cama, chegava ao trabalho – onde o serviço já ia a todo o vapor – e procurava alguém para ser despedido.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I have decided to ask you to please go away." "All right," he said. "You asked me." "Please will you go away?" "No," he said. I could not think of anything further to say.
~ Shirley Jackson
That'll be the day!
~ John Wayne
No matter what battles you, never be depressed because of it. Rather, dare to laugh it off. In other words, dismiss it in a light-hearted way. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
I love how the reality of fashion is all about something for that moment and then the extremity of dismissal.
~ Marc Jacobs
After my dismissal, I received nothing in writing from Cricket Australia, no contact, and no payment at all, not even of my basic leave pay, until I was forced to bring in lawyers to assist in the process.
~ Mickey Arthur
I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
~ Fatima Siad
My lord consigned the doctor and his words of wisdom to a place of great heat
~ Georgette Heyer
When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
~ Steven Wright
In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.
~ Howard Schultz
There are corporate environments where a person has dedicated their life to working hard, and then they're fired with a security person escorting them out the door. I find that so demeaning and disrespectful.
~ Daniel Lubetzky