Quotes About Recognition

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor.

This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you.

Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this.

Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson

We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself?-Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Hey, Tracy you army brat, I think it's for you!

My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.

I'm the most famous person, problem is people don't know it yet…

I never knew, apes talk. Apparently, you do.

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.