Quotes About Dismissal

if we don't follow through with appropriate consequences, people learn to dismiss our requests—even if they sound like threats or ultimatums. If we ask

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any.

But when Herndon took off on some "deep volume," like the writings of Immanuel Kant, Lincoln would wave it away as indigestible.

In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the suffering of those who served the Crippled God. As something … fitting. And for our seeming fanaticism they will dismiss all that we were, and think only of what we achieved. Or failed to achieve. And in so doing, they will miss the whole fucking point.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

There's always been a snobby dismissal of football and the emotions it elicits in millions of people.

Just kissing? How quickly you dismiss our love.

He flirts and asks if I'm a model. "I'll see you in hell," I tell him, and move on.

I believe in what you do -You do? -Sure, what do you do? -Out!

one hand, there are those who openly dismiss the philosophical aspect

He wanted to tell himself or maybe even her that he would never understand women, but he had a feeling he wasn't the first man to formulate this opinion and very likely wouldn't be the last and that it really didn't matter anyway. So dismissing this useless assessment, he took a deep breath, exhaled loudly, put the entire matter behind him, and tramped after her.

SOD YOU, THEN, Death said.

My first job in the States was as a junior fashion editor at 'Harper's Bazaar,' which I enjoyed, but not for all that long because I was fired by the editor in chief, who told me that I was too 'European.'

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

The Mega doesn't hide. "My ass." "Can't possibly be worth what he thinks." I have no idea what he's talking about but it doesn't have anything to do with me so I dismiss it.

Confronted by something she couldn't explain, she pretended it wasn't there. Dude, ostrich much?

I don't like your attitude." "My attitude?" he echoed dumbly. "So get thee from my bed and from my sight and speak no more to me this night.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

out of sight,out of mind

They dismissed me as a peasant, I dismissed them as shallow, and we were all happy like that.

Most of the jobs I had when I was younger, I got fired from. I never had the attention span.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.