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Quotes About Unrecognized

I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread...
~ J.R. Ward
No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I'm attracted to the underrated characters.
~ Tim Crouch
I know I'm underrated.
~ Gegard Mousasi
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy... in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs... the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy,... in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs,...the little deadly demon...; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
~ James Joyce
I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.
~ Jessica Chastain
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breastThe little tyrant of his fields withstood;Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.
~ Thomas Gray
I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.
~ Hozier
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
~ Harrison Ford
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
~ Kate Smith
Small-company stocks, like any asset class, can get picked over from time to time, but there are fundamental reasons why diligently mining them with an eye for unrecognised value can get market-beating returns.
~ Whitney Tilson
A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is that they did get to be in this unrecognized ghetto for a long time.
~ Daniel Handler
The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!
~ Anthony Liccione
There are some strange unrecognized forms of prostitution with which prostitution itself is an honest trade: at least you get something for your money.
~ Heinrich Boll
Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
~ Peter York
Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.
~ Dave Eggers
My name is Nobody.
~ Homer
unrecognized power is apt to avenge itself for lowly station by viewing the world from a lofty standpoint.
~ Honore de Balzac
Often enough it is little that can be done in an old country, where life is ruled by fixed and imperious traditions; while much may be done where all is yet fluid, and where, if religion is sometimes unprotected and unrecognised, she is not embarrassed by influences which deaden or cramp her best energies at home.
~ Unknown
He thought himself the closest person to Janie present, yet he had no say in anything and nobody knew how he was hurting. "I had so much to share," he said, "and nobody even knew.
~ Unknown
Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.
~ David Gemmell
It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
~ Walter Matthau