Quotes of: Rejection-slips Keyword

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscie...

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps. It was like the slot machines wherein on...

Jack London

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Harold Wilson

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

Alexandra Chando

Rejection isn't a sign of failure. Rejection is a reminder that there's always room for improvement.

Life

I've learned something peculiar in my life, every time rejection comes on my way; my break through shows up. Now I'm sort of enjoying rejection, so bring it on, I'm ready to celebrate my break through and I'm grateful to those who reject me.

Euginia Herlihy

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppress...

Eartha Kitt

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppress...

Eartha Kitt

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

James M. Barrie

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Salman Rushdie

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

Morgan Brittany

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Naguib Mahfouz

[Annie has just read Paul's latest novel] Annie Wilkes: YOU! YOU DIRTY BIRD, HOW COULD YOU! Paul Sheldon: What? Annie Wilkes: She can't be dead, MISERY CHASTAIN CANNOT BE DEAD! Paul Sheldon: Annie, in 1871, women often died during childbirth. But her...

Misery

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

Edmund White

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

Jane Alexander

Curiosity is a youthful beauty. Connected to joy and slipping around old beliefs, it urges us to investigate rather than assume.

Time Slipping

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing

Sol Stein

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.

Robin Black