Quotes About Being Snubbed

#1. When I finished with him [Maradona] he was like a racing colt.

Jimmy Burns

#2. Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent, moody. His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus: "Reckon he's got tapeworm" Atticus said no, Jem was growing. I must be patient with him and disturb him as little as possible.

Harper Lee

#3. The hyperreal is the abolition of the real not by violent destruction, but by its assumption, elevation to the strength of the model. Anticipation, deterrence, preventive transfiguration, etc.: the model acts as a sphere of absorption of the real.

Jean Baudrillard

#4. In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

Barbara Lynn

#5. Being snubbed is not always a bad thing at awards shows because you end up getting a lot of people coming up to you and telling you how great you are.

Amy Poehler

#6. At ninety-eight point six everything is boring. Yet

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#7. They got off the bus and stayed together.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. The rod that beat you is broken but you have no reason to be glad. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon -- The Rule of Void

Ekene Onuorah

#9. In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Edmund Wilson

#10. Originality is undetected plagiarism.

William Ralph Inge

#11. It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.

Doug E. Fresh

#12. Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.

Robert Orben

#13. Showing up unannounced was risky. This guy was known for being cantankerous at best, violent at worst. But she was ready. As soon as the door opened, she let loose a stream of urine right on his doorstep . . . and then ran like hell. A few days more of that, she knew, and he' d be all hers.

Marah J. Hardt

#14. Besides" - Jasper smiled, teeth pearly white and predatory - "it'll be a cold day in hell when I complain about having a hot piece like you in my bed.

Melissa Grey