Quotes About Recognition

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Je ne reconnais plus Mes soeurs les vents

appreciate your finer qualities

The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows.

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

It was dark." "I'd know you in the dark, Tucker." Tucker's eyes flashed up to meet Elliot's. He said curtly. "Yeah. I'd know you too.

Her expression is blank and demure, but this girl and I, we have the same shape mouth. I recognize the way she's set it, like she's got a ball of mutiny in there, and she is rolling it around to get a thorough taste. She's not half as placid as she looks.

Hana didn't know that I existed, much less that I was looking for her. She didn't know that anyone was looking. Hana wasn't like me. She was like Candace, Shar, Karice—every lost girl in the world who felt herself unvalued and unsought. She had no way to know that somewhere in the world, right now, her name was being called.

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

My famous friend Cal, not recognized in any café or caffè famous but recognized in one or two cafés or caffès and the reading room of the 42nd Street library famous—writerly anti-nonfamous. I've never liked Cal's writing, but I've always liked him—the both of them like family. He's been living in Iowa, teaching on fellowship. All of Iowa must be campuses and crops.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

Deprive a child of parental approval, and they'll spend their lives trying to get it. And the sad, undeniable fact is that I spent most of my formative years just trying to get my parents' attention, let alone their approval. The more they withheld it, the greater my attempts to attain it.

The woman regarded him. Her hands shook. She was really very drunk. "I know everybody in this room," she said. "And you know what I see when I look at them? I don't see anybody I know.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

How many geniuses die undiscovered, not only by others but, more sadly, by themselves?

Extraer la belleza del mundo, incluso aunque esté oculta a simple vista.

nadie capta la importancia de lo que pasa al mismo tiempo que le está pasando. Si se me apareciera un genio con lo de los deseos, yo pediría ése, saber reconocer las cosas que van a ser importantes después.

Si hay algo que un profesional del quirófano teme es a los vips.

quisiera que, viniendo despacio, como antes, desde la cocina, desde el patio, en la noche cítrica, una mano, materna o familiar, es decir, de dedos conocidos, en el viejo sentido, anterior a la explosión, a esta deriva sin dirección y sin bordes, encendiera, por fin, la luz, del cuarto sin lujo, austero, con, apenas, lo necesario para reconocer el honor y la constancia de lo que es, lo que es en su seguir siendo, mesa, jarra, botella, ventana y paraíso.

Yo soy Etchenike. Si le hubiera dicho que era Robert Redford o el mismísimo San Puta, el efecto no habría sido mayor.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.