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Quotes About Recognizable

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.
~ Julian Schnabel
A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it's pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.
~ Alexandra Kleeman
My voice is so recognisable. I'm like a foghorn walking round shops on my phone.
~ Georgia Toffolo
Suddenly, I was reading these comics. I was looking at those bubbles, those dialogue bubbles, and suddenly there were words... recognizable words.
~ Philip Schultz
Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?
~ James Ellroy
You are avake, yah?" said a voice in a horribly recognizable accent. "Yah," I muttered, rubbing my head. "And you are still a jerk, yah?
~ James Patterson
Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.
~ Romany Malco
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
~ Seamus Heaney
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't even have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging — but they weren't sweet.
~ Miles Davis
I like to have recognizable themes and sounds that really connect to the project and that you can identify with that particular project. My goal is always, 'When that theme comes on - even if you're not in the room - you hear it and say, 'Oh my show is starting, I gotta watch.'
~ Ramin Djawadi
The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
~ Francis Spufford
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
~ Naomi Alderman
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
~ Martin Filler
But what struck me as I followed the paper trail through each life was that while extraordinary circumstances produce extraordinary women, food makes them recognizable.
~ Laura Shapiro
Thus, 'Proto-Semitic' is more a postulate or linguistic convention than an actual ancient language spoken by a recognizable group.
~ Angel Sáenz-Badillos
I think I just look extremely normal, like just a sort of fairly trendy bearded bloke. Whereas Ed, you'd know it's Ed Sheeran from space, you know; you can see him from anywhere.
~ Passenger
My face is distinct. It's hard to confuse me with anyone else.
~ DJ Qualls
The very power of evil is that it is not recognizable to us most of the time. It is not repellent at all. It does not attack, it seduces.
~ Anne Perry
Mike Tyson was probably - positively or negatively - the most recognizable face on the planet: the 'baddest man on the planet.' And you had our new resident baddest man on the planet, Stone Cold Steve Austin, whom fans were just gravitating to in a way they'd never done before, walking out and flipping off Mike Tyson.
~ Triple H
I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few things I have a really hard time drawing. I think the one that comes up the most is airplanes. Big airliners have such a weird wing shape, and I always have to redraw them 20 times before they're even recognizable.
~ Randall Munroe
I've always liked shows that have a strong cast of secondary characters. One of the greatest examples ever I would say is 'The Simpsons.' If you think about it, you could name 100 characters recognizable from that show. I think 'Scrubs' has done a good job of having a strong team coming off the bench.
~ Neil Flynn
But I must have overdone it, and the relationship between truth and fiction must have gone awry: now every street, every building had become recognizable
~ Elena Ferrante
What we can see of DNA is like a portrait of someone familiar, from which some vandal has cut out the features that make the face instantly recognisable.
~ Gareth Williams
'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we see around us.
~ Jed Mercurio