Quotes About Recognition

Who was there to write our names, to even know our names and to remember us?

You have a sixty-seven GTO convertible, in factory red." He stood in reverent silence for ten full seconds. "I think you have to marry me now. You're the first woman besides Loo who's seen her and known what she is. I'm pretty sure we're engaged.

It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple? Hadn't she mattered at all?

She didn't like to be read so easily but she couldn't help respecting someone who could.

I have to go. I'll just say goodbye to David and Theo. Pilar kissed Maddy lightly, absently on the cheek, and made the girl's color come up. See you later. Yeah, okay. How come they're for me? she asked Tyler. Because I hear you did good. He held them out. You want them or not? Yeah, I want them. She took them, noted the little flutter in her belly as she sniffed. A kind of muscle reflex, she supposed it was. A nice one. Nobody ever gave me flowers before.

Lew? Not that I don't appreciate it, but it

You don't know me. If I haven't figured myself out yet, you can't know me.

It's easier to know what you're not than what you are.

Fame all depends on the ground you're standing on...

You know her, then?

He has a need for attention, to have attention focused on him—for better or worse. The worst punishment I can give him is to ignore him, which I've done, fairly successfully

We are remembered for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot do.

It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety; TV confuses people.

To matter forever, you need to matter to those who don't care. And if that strikes you as sad, be sad.

I don't need to personally agree with something in order to recognize that it's true.

This is a very common paradigm held in small towns. If somebody who grew up in your community wins a Nobel Prize, you cut out the newspaper story and put it on the bulletin board; if someone from your town grows up and becomes America's most depraved serial rapist, you cut out the newspaper story and put it on the bulletin board. It's just nice to see someone doing anything.

Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don't recognize as real.

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you. The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.

A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.