Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Zappa

Left me here to cry alone with a bottle of juice and pork chop bone.

Frank Zappa

She use to knock me out until her face broke out.

We are unanimous in rejecting the round-table conference.

Ariel Sharon

Once in a while such reports are published, ... I'm not rejecting anyone.

Jaron Lanier

Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.

Janet Evanovich

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

Gilberto Gil

Obama wants to stand for a peaceful, generous, encompassing approach that would bring all Americans, but not just Americans, the whole of international society, together to advance civilization towards what we all understand is necessary to advance. Because of that he's being subjected to very serious rejections from the reactionary portion of the system, which, unfortunately, is the dominant portion.

Jessica Biel

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

Ian Ziering

Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

Herbert Marcuse

The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

Eva Mendes

Rejection is good for the soul.

Robert Casey

By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.

Jeff Lindsay

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

Jack Canfield

Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

Madeline Zima

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Philippa Gregory

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Elaine Paige

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

Leo Strauss

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,

Lauren Bacall

Acting is a life of rejection.

Laurell K. Hamilton

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Joseph Murray

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

Patrick Kavanagh

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

Joey King

Dont get discouraged from all the rejection.

P. D. James

Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.

Maeve Binchy

If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.

Madonna Ciccone

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

All great innovations are built on rejections.

Oprah Winfrey

I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

Kathy Ireland

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Gloria Steinem

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

The rejection of Aegis won't look like it's a 'no' forever,

Ray Bradbury

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.