Quotes About Rejection

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.

But he's never been interested in me, and the last time I made a move on him, Caillen almost tore my arm out of its socket. Lesson learned. Syn off-limits. (Kasen)

Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

Even though I've been reasonably well known for quite a long time, I still can't get a record on daytime radio or on MTV.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

You might get a "no" a hundred times but you might get "yes" one time. That one "yes" will take you on a new path!

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

I said, Don't do nothing of the kind; it's one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;

As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always go their own way, which makes everybody forsake them and despise them, and that is perfectly natural. If they was humbler, and listened and tried to learn, it would be better for them.

He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Du moment, madame, où cette mère dénaturée ôte ce qu'elle donna

All right, then, I'll go to hell - and tore it up.

Unfortunately nothing happened with the girls. They just ran off giggling into the night. No digits, no dates, not even their names, leaving me feeling dumb and sad, a bit like a broken thermos- fine on the outside, but on the inside nothing but busted glass.