The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

- Anthony Hopkins

Only the public that elected me can dismiss me.

- Ayman Odeh

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

- Gore Vidal

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

- Joni Mitchell

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

- Jose Padilha

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

- Kevin Costner

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

- Michael Eric Dyson

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

- Moby

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

- Natasha Trethewey

What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.

- Rachel Sklar

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

- Stephen Sondheim

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

- Stokely Carmichael

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.

- Sebastian Horsley

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

- Walt Whitman

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

- Zaha Hadid