Quotes About Overlooked

It's been overlooked for a long time as a real public health problem. All of western society is a little bit sleep-deprived, and when I say a little bit, I mean chronically.

Tessa's hilarious. I think it's one of the things that gets overlooked because she's always so pulled together, but she has the best sense of humor.

The one they always forget is Brad Dexter.

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

There was so little said about the Burmese war. The Forgotten 14th, they called them.

Special teams get the shaft when most people talk football. Unless a kicker's bombing a game-winner or a return man is going the distance, that important third of the game is all but forgotten.

I was a three-star recruit, went to Texas A&M, and no one really talked about me there.

I've done films over the years that basically no one saw. And I'm thankful that some of them haven't been seen.

When you're from the Bay Area, there's this chip on your shoulder that you inherently come up with, because us, as a region, we've been overlooked in the grand scheme of the history of the genre and the culture.

But writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that impossible prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

I was like that wife of Kitchen God. Nobody worshipped her either. He got all the excuses. He got all the credit. She was forgotten.

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

Ona se osje?a isklju?ena iz svega, jer i jest isklju?ena iz svega. Drugi idu naprijed penju?i se pritom preko nje. ?ini se da je ona jedina prepreka na putu. Šeta?i prolaze, a ona ostaje ležati poput odba?ena zamaš?ena papira koji otpuhuju naleti vjetra. Zamaš?en papir ne može daleko odletjeti; trune ondje gdje je. A proces raspadanja traje godinama, koje se bezli?no nižu.

Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed the world for the better. But they wouldn't notice him were he standing right in front of them.

I was backing into the picture I wanted to see by noticing what wasn't in it. It was like trying to understand a photography by studying the negative. I found myself focusing not on what people remembered, focused on, and said, but on what they forgot, disregarded, and did not say. I was backing into the deep story, as I am calling it, and noticing what, in human consciousness, it crowded out.

of the Second Amendment: we are endowed with words as our most intimate and overlooked form of power; these are the arms we bear.

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

I went under the radar my whole life.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.

It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.