Quotes About Dismissiveness

#1. For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt ... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

Paul Feig

#2. When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa.

Jon Stewart

#3. The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Understanding what I give up and knowing that I choose freely makes my choice more precious to me.

Jennifer Beckstrand

#5. The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

Walter Lippmann

#6. I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever.

Peter Berg

#7. But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive." "Especially

L. Frank Baum

#8. I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#9. The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.

Swami Satchidananda

#10. If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

Matthew Henry

#11. The worst thing about getting cured from paranoia is seeing how many people actually hate you

Danny Hogan

#12. He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness. Where did that come from? Did I have that kind of happiness inside me? Was I just afraid of it?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#13. I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.

Mae Jemison

#14. It is like having a book out from the library.
It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

Lorrie Moore

#15. Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Austin O'Malley

#16. I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

John Sayles