Being Ignored Quotations

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

I hate being ignored.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

The thrill of being ignored!

An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to, it was being ignored