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Quotes About Overlooked

intel and no one gave it a second thought.
~ David Baldacci
I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been... overlooked; and then that horrific interval between realizing what you've overlooked and turning your head to look back at what's been right there all along, the whole time...
~ David Foster Wallace
I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been... overlooked.
~ David Foster Wallace
When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you "best of all." It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me […]
~ Claire Messud
that fell through the cracks.
~ Unknown
That would be the worst. To be ignored. To not be seen.
~ Liane Moriarty
Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.
~ Paul Davies
Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition.
~ Keegan Bradley
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.
~ Stephen King
The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.
~ Susan Sontag
You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.
~ Tamora Pierce
Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.
~ Marlee Matlin
But a lot of the time, I'm just a spot. It all feels so big, and I'm just a spot.
~ David Levithan
We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.
~ Zadie Smith
Poor Zora – she lived through footnotes.
~ Zadie Smith
Like these entities may be the lost acres of the mind, things that have been overlooked by the higher consciousness; that it can't see them, can't process them, fills in the space where they are by folding up the visual map around them., putting things on either side next to each other, like the blind spot in the eye.
~ Unknown
I think people really don't understand what a producer does versus what a director does. I mean, the producer is often the person that is on the movie the longest - it's their material that they are then bringing the director onto to bring it to the screen. Are we overlooked? Absolutely.
~ Lauren Shuler Donner
It's very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.
~ Graeme Souness
There is a lot of talent and a lot of good things happening and coming from Molenbeek, but unfortunately, it has had to deal with a very, very long time of being ignored, really, and it was very easy, even in the neighbourhood where I grew up, to just fall off the grid, and nobody would notice it.
~ Vincent Kompany
Vice president is the bridesmaid, and nobody cares about you. Nobody wants you. You're just in the way. You're there to play a subsidiary role. You're like the middle child or the poor relation.
~ Tim Matheson
The women were of a unique and overlooked generation. Many were born in 1920, the historic year when American women won the right to vote. Their early life was led in an atmosphere of broadening opportunity
~ Liza Mundy
What you wouldn't have suspected lives & trembles in the air. Those treasures of the day you keep just out of reach. These come & go in truckloads but no one stops to see them.
~ Unknown