Quotes About Recognition

At least she recognizes a good love scene when she sees one.

familiarity breeds acceptance.

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

The movie was very different from the book in that there was nothing from the book in the movie. Despite everything — all the pain I felt, the betrayal — I couldn't help but recognize a truth while sitting in that screening room. In the book everything about me had happened. The book was something I simply couldn't disavow. The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

She bemoaned the fact that we didn't seem to be at a point anymore when being extremely good at something—and getting rewarded for that talent with attention, respect and money—was even regarded as possible.

Won't I be seeking some status of superiority?

Redbeard pirate look only worked for Ed Sheeran because he was Ed Sheeran.

Yet our moment is rare and extraordinary, a recognition that allows us to make life's impermanence and the scarcity of self-reflective awareness the basis for value and a foundation for gratitude.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones. —admonition to acolytes, the Rossak School

Those who seek fame and glory are least qualified to possess it.

Sister May was delighted at their announcement that the young one is to be named after her. However, she insists on the little female being called May and not Sissimay.

Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower." Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!

So familiar that it didn't even register in the conversation; but it did reappear when I laid it out on the table of my dreams.

have done. I am thankful however for what 1 have

I can tell the difference between a Corvette and a Mustang. It was the woman sitting on the hood that got me flustered.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are.

Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.

It's like now that I'm looking for inequality, I'm seeing it everywhere, categorizing a thousand great and small unfairnesses everywhere I go. Why didn't I really see this before?

Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?

He wasn't Tolstoy but just plain old James Gooch. Commercial writer. Destined to be of the moment and not to stand the test of time. And the worst thing about it was that he'd never be able to pretend to be Tolstoy again.

The most amazing discovery in the world is someone who understands what you're about without your having to go through your entire life history to explain it.

That's no midget," the water skier said. "That's a real person.

until the image itself has grown distorted past all recognition save that of memory