Top 266 Dismissed Quotes & Sayings

Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

High kitsch, whatever else may be said of it, cannot be openly dismissed as cheap.

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

I'm sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos - or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.

I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Having been a 'Page 3' model I know what is it like to be singled out as one thing, to be dismissed as unintelligent and only possessing one quality.

The 'One Belt, One Road' initiative has been dismissed by some as not working. But America could be becoming weaker by ignoring what is going on right under our noses.

Anything or anyone that limits the dream you have for yourself and for your career is just to be dismissed. Do not keep that company, and do not hear those words.

You can so easily be dismissed as a thug or hysterical if you're a woman if you don't keep your rage in check.

While many liberals have dismissed the idea of political correctness as a right-wing manufactured hysteria, it is in fact a real thing.

I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.

I'm discovering so much about how invisible, othered and dismissed the Islamic world is, in terms of the massive effects it had on European music and culture.

I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

When I was at Madrid, I knew even by the December of that season that I would be sacked, and if they hadn't dismissed me, I would have resigned.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics. She must be repudiated by the members of her own party. And if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling. And they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party.

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

In an age of political correctness, even the most apparent gender assertions are dismissed as ignorance.

The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it's not. It's the language we all speak, and it's the connection point between people all over the world.

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.

Pain can be dismissed.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers.

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.

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.

Gareth Jellyman has just been dismissed, I think he's thrown a wobbler

I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.

I hear a lot of Top Model girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.

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.

The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.

History is weirdly dismissed as not having anything to do with the present moment.

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.

I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.