Rejected Quotes

486 Rejected quotes by 422 unique authors

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by… — Don Rickles
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern… — Joni Mitchell
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home. — Norman Fell
Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative,… — Martin Jacques
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor
In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is… — Bill Dedman
For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones.… — Barton Gellman
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the… — Spalding Gray
The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for… — Oliver Ellsworth
Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners. — Karen DeCrow
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the reality of our… — King Felipe VI
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow. — Abba Eban
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it. — Barry Switzer
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul,… — Frank Harris
Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column. — Robert Novak
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan… — Lars von Trier
I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford… — Leonard Alfred George Strong
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the… — Theodore Sturgeon
The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer… — C S Forester
I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected. — Lisa Bonet
I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists… — Alberto Fujimori
When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this… — Joseph Jarman
The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism… — Phillip Noyce
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. — Constance Baker Motley
Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin… — Gijs de Vries

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