Quotes About Recognition

Il mondo era così recente, che molte cose erano prive di nome, e per citarle bisognava indicarle col dito.

There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—" Unable to resist the temptation, he ran a feather-light caress down the curve of her cheek with one leather-sheathed knuckle. The cobalt depths of her eyes flickered with response, but she said nothing, heeding his every word. "—people we meet in a day, and instantly, it feels as though we've known them all our lives.

There were only a few stories worth telling, which is why they needed to be told over and over again, until everyone recognized them as his own experience.

During her life she was in Rivera's shadow. She was framed as the 'Wife of the Master Mural Painter [who] Gleefully Dabbles in Works of Art', as the patronizing headline of the Detroit News proclaimed in February 1933. Today, Rivera is known as Frida's husband.

I do not like to influence others. I would not like to become famous. I have done nothing deserving of acknowledgment in my life.2 When Kahlo made this statement she had already produced virtually all the iconic paintings for which she is well known – indeed, venerated – today.

I do not like to influence others. I would not like to become famous. I have done nothing deserving of acknowledgment in my life.

It was funny how you thought you remembered someone. You sketched their face boldly in your mind, but when you saw them again, you realized how far you were from their true likeness. Had he always been that height, for example? Had he moved the way he did, long strides as he reached the table? Had he smiled at her like that? Maybe she'd constructed false memories of him, fake angles.

One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.

It's changed from one-hit wonder to 'Greg Rutherford wins events.' That's what I've always wanted, that level of recognition.

Whoever wins MVP, whoever wins whatever those awards are, that's not my decision.

Don't get me wrong: I've worked, over the course of 14 years, with certain actors that are really just not nice as people, so you don't really care what happens to their show. But someone like Rachael Harris, you hope that woman wins an Emmy.

I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.

Any club that wins the European Cup gives it more credence.

One of the things I learned playing on a good team is when the team wins, when you make the playoffs, everybody looks good.

We see fighters fight their whole career and never get a title shot. It doesn't matter if they rack up 10 wins if people think they're boring. We all know how it works.

On the personal level, it's hard for a goalie. You don't get awards for save percentage or anything like that. Your work is really put into how many wins you can get, how many times you can get your team in the playoffs and all that. So I took a lot of pride in winning.

People tend to think I lack focus. This is probably something they conclude from my trendy dressing style or my hair color. They forget my wins. I guess it's easy to forget.

Defense wins championships. I love being viewed as that guy.

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.

When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.

'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.