Quotes About Recognition

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

hija, hasta entonces inadvertidos, pasaron

hija, hasta entonces inadvertidos

Oh, le maschere. Tutti tendono sempre a pensare al volto che nascondono, ma in realtà ciò che conta è la maschera, perchè proprio questa e non un'altra. Dimmi che maschera porti e ti dirò chi sei

Nunca quise mariposas clavadas en un cartón, busco una ecología poética, atisbarme y a veces reconocerme desde mundos diferentes, cosas que sólo los poemas no habían olvidado y me guardaban como viejas fotografías fieles. No aceptar otra orden que las afinidades, otra cronología que la del corazón, otro horario que el de los encuentros a deshora, los verdaderos

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

contemplé la ciudad abajo, una geometría cubista reverberante bajo el sol de julio. Parecía como si la ciudad entera fuera un reflejo de la que fue y que tanto me costaba reconocer.

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

In the idea we recognize our true homeland.

We have so much to be thankful for when we remember our reasons for gratitude—the blessings we may take for granted, the blessings we would miss bitterly if they vanished.

momma help me turn the face of history to your face. - Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.

if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

Don't tell her that your moms knew right away what it was, that she recognized its smell from the year the United States invaded your island.

They would be able to tell. Even the most bruto would see the death in your eyes.

She couldn't see me or she would have known that I thought she was beautiful.

One day while watching his mother tear sheets off the beds it dawned on him that the family curse he'd heard about his whole life might actually be true. Fukú. He rolled the word experimentally in his mouth. Fuck you.

Don't say I'm not talented. If you haven't noticed, I wasn't made — I was found.

It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known.

and yet wasn't there something about [vampires] that struck a deep chord of recognition, even of memory? The teeth, the blood, the hunger, the immortal union with darkness -- what if these things weren't fantasy but recollection or even instinct, a feeling etched over eons into human DNA, of some dark power that lay within the human animal?