«I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.»

«I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions»

«. . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.»

«Just for a word - 'neutrality', a word which in wartime has so often been disregarded, just for a scrap of paper - Great Britain is going to make war.»

«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»

«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»

«Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color»

«Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.»

«A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.»

«Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.»