Rejected Quotes

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

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.