Dismissible Quotes

#1. If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

Karen Joy Fowler

#2. Serial killers were hopped-up eyeball fuckers and ravaged inner children. They were scary in the moment and as dismissible as an empty box of popcorn.

James Ellroy

#3. I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

Heidi Julavits

#4. Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#5. I wish he'd rushed out." "Always a sound policy." "I bet you never did." "More times than I can count. Which is why I'm still here, having dinner with you. The chaotic universe. Darwinism in action.

Lee Child

#6. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

Ford Madox Ford

#7. I wanted to howl until I was nothing but sound.

Lish McBride

#8. We talk about things. We talk about nothing.

Andre Agassi

#9. I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

Stanley Tucci

#10. One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity can be undermined.
(page 125, Chapter 9, Graeme Galton)

Graeme Galton

#11. Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

Dean Koontz