Quotes About Being Written Off

#1. It is possible to take a population of students who are failing and whose schools are failing them, who are being written off as not being college material, and if they have the right support, they can all go to college and succeed.

Mitch Kapor

#2. I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say.

Trent Reznor

#3. The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ...

Wallace Stevens

#4. I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.

Alexis Taylor

#5. Your greater purpose is already written in the fabric of your being; your purpose awaits your arrival.

Bryant McGill

#6. If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make her my own. I was petrified, in the beginning, because it's such an iconic character, especially being a young lady myself.

Tamsin Egerton

#7. My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.

Kate Voegele

#8. I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot.

Lev Grossman

#9. I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly.

Kevin Kwan

#10. A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

Margaret Bourke-White

#11. Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied

Virginia Woolf

#12. Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.

Stanley Hauerwas

#13. Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#14. History books are being re-written all the time

Andy Warhol

#15. It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.

Marly Youmans

#16. If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

Giacomo Casanova

#17. I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.

John Grisham

#18. I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Virat Kohli

#19. In reality, orthodoxy comes into being only after there are choices to be made, with competing, and mutually exclusive, options. Heresy is the choice that loses. Ecclesiastical history, like any other, is written by the victors.

Eric A. Eliason

#20. Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

Ian Hart

#21. Just be yourself," Connor tells him. "I know you probably fail at written word, but in person, you usually ace being who you are."
"I'm going to ignore the part where you fucking insulted me."
Connor grins. "Why? Those are the best parts."
Ryke flips him off.

Krista Ritchie

#22. Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

Pete Townshend

#23. It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

Wim Wenders

#24. There comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.

James Salter

#25. the fundamentally paradoxical ways that our very subjectivities are constituted: as cultural scripts, as texts written before us as us. It is confusing being a novel, a piece of fiction that considers itself a simple fact.

Whitley Strieber

#26. Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

Jennifer Beals

#27. Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion to being alive.

Steven Bauer

#28. Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.

George Saunders

#29. The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

Jim Carrey

#30. I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.

Simon McBurney

#31. So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Pliny The Younger

#32. John Green has written a powerful novel - one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human. This is a book that will touch your life, so don't read it sitting down. Stand up, and take a step into the Great Perhaps.

KL Going

#33. Much has been written about what makes families work. The consensus is that families that support the emotional well-being and growth of their members combine two almost opposite traits. They combine discipline with spontaneity, rules with freedom, high expectations with unstinting love.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#34. Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'

Maya Angelou

#35. We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

Don Cheadle

#36. I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

George Shearing

#37. I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

Brian Eno

#38. I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

Dave McKean

#39. Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Idries Shah

#40. A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

Theodor Haecker

#41. There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.

Jill Dembowski

#42. With you, there is a beautiful cover and a marvelous story inside that is still being written.

Amelia Hutchins

#43. Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

Hendrik Hertzberg

#44. Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

Gilbert Murray