Top 1200 Turned Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid...

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes.

Not many people know that I turned down my husband's first directorial, the Kannada film 'Pallavi Anupallavi,' something he still hasn't forgiven me for.

I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

Brit Marling smartest girl I've ever met. Hands down. Brilliant. Her story? She had a graduate degree from a top tier school and turned down a job with some big company. She went to LA, said she was going to be an actress. She wasn't getting auditions, so she started writing her own films.

I got fired from WWE and it felt like our lives got turned upside down.

I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

We're heading towards a perception tipping point where it's going to soon become a foregone conclusion that not only has Newark turned a corner, but it's way down the right road.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

I've never been offered a job that I turned down and regretted. I didn't have Stanley Kubrick offer me something and me say no.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

When I was a boy during Thatcher, you watched elections and wept in disbelief as the whole country turned blue, Scotland turned red, and we still got the Tories.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

I have a lot of trouble getting turned on by girls who are turned on by celebrity.

When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

When I first turned pro, I was making a lot of money, and I was spending money from two fights down the line.

Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

My agent and manager would sternly tell me exactly the number of projects that we've turned down at this point. But, I think it's really important to do the right thing next.

President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.

I have people coming to me with endorsements all the time. I've turned down endorsements well over $1 million because I didn't like the company.

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General. Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.

I didn't get turned on, I just got turned. I wasn't as aroused as I was concerned.

An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The Prince of the Black Islands." She's a beautiful young woman, and she has turned her husband into stone from the waist down. A traveling sultan finds him, in his dreadful state, and the man petrified from the waist down tells his sad story...how his wife comes every afternoon and beats him until the blood runs down. She's just unwontedly, arbitrarily cruel.

I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.

The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.

After making repeated attempts to change my career trajectory and having those efforts turned down, my passion for playing the role of a WWE Superstar went away.

... you just turned down the woman who put a marshmallow duck in your hot chocolate. I hope you feel like a real asshole now.

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.