Overlooked Quotes

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby

Live, Together, After

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
Mae West

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Great, Power

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
Laura Linney

Courage, Important, Humility

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Great, Power, Long

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.
Jerry Saltz

Him, Before, Found

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
Jimmy Carter

Health, Mother, Human

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
Jack Nicholson

Last, Guy, Academy

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Judy Holliday

Good, Give, Fact

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.
Marlee Matlin

Chance, Door, Deaf

Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, School, End

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
James Dyson

Success, Age, Hard

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
Al Yankovic

Humor, Pet, Same

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.
Wade Boggs

Life, Young, Kids

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
Matt Groening

Good, Writing, Often

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
Roger Angell

Great, Different, Basically

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.
Dan Lipinski

Small, Local, Businesses

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
Gary Bauer

Often, Morality, Debate

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.
Fred Upton

Money, Future, While

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.
Paul Davies

Life, Fact, Far

I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.
Dita Von Teese

Creative, While, Side

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
Tony Visconti

Once, Vintage, Brand

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
Bob Barr

Technology, Down, Looking

Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!
David Zucker

Best, Movies, Done

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
Brenda Lee

Women, Rock, Felt

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.
Gordon Strachan

Bad, Forget, Done

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
Lloyd Banks

Trying, Dark, Anymore

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.
John Anderson

Forget, Jobs, Production

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