Quotes About Recognition

Mitsuru and Yuriko and Kazue didn't mutate; they simply decayed. A biology professor certainly ought to be able to recognize the signs of fermentation and decay. Isn't he the one who taught us all about these processes in organisms? In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

Important work," Jeri quipped, "often loses the spotlight to self-important people.

The world has a talent for rewarding bad behavior with stardom

Although I do not require devotion, am I not deserving of it?

That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.

Credit is where credit is due and to honner the trixture whose illusions finally become true

Important work often loses the spotlight to self-important people.

It was easy to deal with being invisible, but being noticed ?that was something entirely different.

To be either too good or too bad drew attention. As much as he hated being the lettuce, it was his comfort zone.

Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish.

We're roughage, Tyger said. If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

I thought you were someone else," she told him. "Someone named Gerald Van Der Gans. . . ." "My birth name," he told her. "A name I surrendered when I became Honorable Scythe Michael Faraday.

My ego says it must be me they're after

As long as people see him as dumb, tought guy, they don't notice the more clever things he does.

No son los mejores sitios del mundo, ¿verdad? Tienes que luchar para que sepan que estás ahí; si no, vives una vida de mera adecuación, que es lo peor que hay.

No one calls me Cyrus

The lettuce elevated to a place of honor.

Anastasia felt inadequate among the greats, and yet they parted to make sure she was in the midst of them, as an equal.

Baby, I said, I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

And you'll cry out my name you'll finally know what you should have known So very long ago.

There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.