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Quotes About Overlooked

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
~ Brenda Lee
unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
~ Natasha Lyonne
At the end of the day you have to step in the ring and show what you got, so being overlooked by the media and stuff like that, it doesn't really bother me.
~ Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.
~ Thomas Hughes
You only notice long snappers when they screw up.
~ Brian Urlacher
I've played positive characters. But those films haven't been noticed.
~ Vishwajeet Pradhan
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
~ Melinda Gates
Defenders don't really get any sort of notoriety or anything like that.
~ Becky Sauerbrunn
A lot of the things I do are obvious things that for some reason are not done. I could never figure this out. Why don't people do the obvious?
~ Peter Saul
He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I have been overlooked many times by men—including godly Christian men—because I don't fit a physical profile.
~ Cheryl McKay
Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks 'em.
~ Kin Hubbard
I had a couple of releases including Dil Ka Rishta,' Koi Mere Dil Mein Hai,' Madhoshi,' and Julie,' but they were badly released and went unnoticed.
~ Priyanshu Chatterjee
At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.
~ Ayanna Pressley
Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.
~ Edward Hirsch
I felt like a glorified extra in everybody else's storyline.
~ Greg Vaughan
Qué cosa hace usted y el mundo no se da cuenta de que es un negociazo de la hostia?».
~ Timothy Ferriss
The moment was lost in vulgar details.
~ Oscar Wilde
Faults are hidden at night: every blemish is forgiven.
~ Ovid
Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.
~ Dana Reinhardt
I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
~ Daniel Keyes