#rejected

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#discovered #encounter #etc #felt #first

I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#being #get #getting #going #i

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#american #been #great #great american #novel

It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special. ↗

— Nick Carter

#because #friends #get #i #just

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women. ↗

— Bernard Manning

#bisexual #glad #i #men #rejected

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#american #american people #feeling #i #middle

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like. ↗

— Sting

#family #i #like #losers #rejected

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

#civilian #down #during #ended #finally

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#art #away #elemental #ephemeral #forbidden

My feelings for you are very real" Well I thought about and I realized that my feelings for you are real too. But I also realized that I don't really have any real feelings for you. ↗

— Kady Le

#humor #mean #rejected #humor