Overshadowed Quotes

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Emil Nava brother is Jake Nava, who did Beyonce's Crazy In Love and stuff. He's always lived in his brother's shadow, and this is the first time that he's just killing sh*t. I'm really just happy that he's on top and really doing well.

While the country was daffy about the dummy, it never cared for the ventriloquist.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

I've been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I'd be just a footnote.

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because no matter what happens, good or bad, he's the guy. And you've got no chance of getting in. That's just the way it is. It's tough to play behind a future Hall of Famer.

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

My starring in films with Clint didn't make me toast of the town. I became his appendage. Everything I did was in his shadow.