Recognised Quotes

#1. Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too.

Nicola Sturgeon

#2. As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.

Gerard Way

#3. He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.

Kassandra Cross

#4. I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.

Teresita Sy-Coson

#5. It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

Nancy Sinatra

#6. I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

Joan Allen

#7. The facts that make the world real
these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Ingeborg Bachmann

#8. You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

#9. The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know.

Tove Jansson

#10. To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

John Berger

#11. Only from dark coal tunnels white diamonds come, but only by the light are they recognised.

Akiane Kramarik

#12. Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

Ellen Key

#13. She later said: "If the Irish people vote in favour of gay marriage then I'll vote for gay marriage in the Oireachtas in order to recognise that position, but at the moment that is not recognised by the Constitution."

Lucinda Creighton

#14. Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

Victor Hugo

#15. Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

Barry Long

#16. In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.

Jack London

#17. When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#18. It only happens once - that an actor is suddenly recognised as the star they are.

Gillian Armstrong

#19. The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

Vincent Cassel

#20. Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me.

Tom Baker

#21. E was 'nuts about her', as the parlance of the day had it, as if it were generally recognised that love and madness are adjoining rooms with extremely porous walls.

Jan Kjaerstad

#22. The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

Gina Bellman

#23. I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.

Charlie Simpson

#24. Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.

Peter Watts

#25. Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.

Bill Johnson

#26. I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

Kid Cudi

#27. I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

Muhammad Ali

#28. This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is ... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Marilynne Robinson

#29. To be recognised by a whole country is incredible.

Zinedine Zidane

#30. I had little contact with people outside academia and had formed my assumptions about the rest of the world primarily from watching films and televisions as a child. I recognised that the characters in 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' were probably not representative of humans in general.

Graeme Simsion

#31. You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

Marian Keyes

#32. Male guilt avoidance syndrome,' explained my father. 'It's a recognised medical condition by 2054.

Jasper Fforde

#33. When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.

Henry Winkler

#34. There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.

Patrick Carney

#35. May not now, may not today' may not tomorrow either. But one day your every ounce of effort will be recognised and rewarded

Sarvesh Jain

#36. But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

Alexander McCall Smith

#37. There he saw a woman. He recognised her. She smiled. His heart stood still. Aliena

Ken Follett

#38. I don't actually get recognised. I only have my hair done and make-up put on when I am on TV. The rest of the time, I go out without make-up on, so people don't recognise me.

Delia Smith

#39. It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

Bradley Wiggins

#40. I get recognised in town a bit; I wouldn't say it's hindering my life in any way.

April Pearson

#41. An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Samuel Alexander

#42. I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

Imre Kertesz

#43. My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

Estelle Morris

#44. I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.

Idris Elba

#45. We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of national mourning for us. We must leave history behind us and look forward.

Galarrwuy Yunupingu

#46. If merit is not recognised, still it is merit, and it ought to be honoured as such; but if it is rewarded, it becomes valuable in the eyes of all, and everybody is encouraged to pursue that course in which merit obtains its due reward.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#47. You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

Najib Razak

#48. I never get recognised.

Allen Leech

#49. Many of the self-styled prophets recognised me, and made the sign of the cross at me. Some made the sign of the extremely cross, and shook hand-made charms and fetishes at me.

Simon R. Green

#50. Marriage is the internationally recognised system of relationship recognition. It is the global language of love. When we were young, most of us dreamed of one day getting married. We didn't dream about having a civil partnership.

Peter Tatchell

#51. The chase for more, and the need to be recognised through our achievements and belongings, can hinder us from the real things, like time with those we love, time doing things we love ourselves, and balance. It's probably all about balance really, isn't it?

Bronnie Ware

#52. I've never had paparazzi follow me and I rarely get recognised. I dress like a tramp when I'm not working. My hairdresser calls me the Romanian window cleaner. That's just the way I am.

Katie Melua

#53. My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

#54. I almost never get recognised in the street.

Lena Headey

#55. We recognised that just putting more flights and more passengers into the skies over southeast England wasn't worth the environmental costs we-re paying.

Theresa Villiers

#56. It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.

Sharon Stone

#57. Men recognised her always: the same effulgent face, the same rust voice. And she and I, we recognised each other; I her face and she my legend.

Anais Nin

#58. The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.

Martin McGuinness

#59. Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

Vidal Sassoon

#60. Character builds on characters. Very few recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one.

Vikram Roy

#61. Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognised by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it.

Thomas Paine

#62. Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.

Atul Gawande

#63. Human life must always be defended from its beginning in the womb and must be recognised as a gift of God that guarantees the future of humanity.

Pope Francis

#64. There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

Niels Bohr

#65. And as each new character is merely a metamorphosis from something older, in these little grey balls I recognised green buds plucked before their time; but beyond all else the rosy, moony, tender glow which

Marcel Proust

#66. Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

Terry Eagleton

#67. It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

Anton Du Beke

#68. Zafar always put huge emphasis on his role as a protector of the Hindus and the moderator of Muslim demands. He never forgot the central importance of preserving the bond between his Hindu and Muslim subjects, which he always recognised was the central stitching that held his capital city together.

William Dalrymple

#69. If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#70. I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

A.R. Ammons

#71. She liked the way a ray of mild autumn sun infiltrating the thick cluster of trees caught a reddish orange leaf swirling in the wind and transformed it golden yellow. She liked that it wasn't a leaf she recognised, that she could name or associate with her past.

Renita D'Silva

#72. I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part.

Chang-rae Lee

#73. I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

Robert Webb

#74. My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily ... I am still not recognised on the street that much.

Colin Firth

#75. Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have also been recognised today. I am hugely grateful to the Academy for this great honour, and, of course, to Solomon Northup for sharing his story through his breathtaking book.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#76. Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ...

Kate Morton

#77. I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#78. Recognition without money will not get you recognised.

Habeeb Akande

#79. I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds; many times I thought how nice it would be for them to be recognised, so I hope somehow that in receiving this honour that I represent these people.

Steve Waugh

#80. I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don't get recognised much.

Gabrielle Aplin

#81. How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

Gunter Grass

#82. The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

Vicente Del Bosque

#83. I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

Harry Connick Jr.

#84. I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

Rupert Grint

#85. The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

Raekwon

#86. Damen had half expected a gaudy parade costume, but Laurent had always defined himself against the opulence of the court. And he did not need gilt to be recognised under a parade standard, only the uncovered bright of his hair.

C.S. Pacat

#87. It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

Andre Breton

#88. I recognised love. It forms like a weather pattern.

David Mitchell

#89. It's not weird being recognised, but it's weird having to stop what you're doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

Chord Overstreet

#90. My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity - home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines

James Joyce

#91. I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Catherine Ashton

#92. I don't have to walk around in hats or find remote places to go for lunch! I don't get recognised that often.

Michelle Dockery

#93. The Christians made mental phenomena into independent beings, their own feelings into qualities of things, the passions which governed them into powers which governed the world, in short, predicates of their own nature, whether recognised as such or not, into independent, subjective existences.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#94. I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce.

William Golding

#95. Surprisingly, maybe the place I get recognised the least is the United States. America is not so big on track and field. Some recognise me there but lots don't.

Usain Bolt

#96. Believe me, when you're dealing with infectious alien mind parasites, I always find primitive is best. Then, calmly, almost as if it were a recognised form of verbal punctuation, she took aim with the needler and gutted a rat which had dared to stray into the corridor.

Alastair Reynolds

#97. It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

Roger Milla

#98. My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

Nneka

#99. The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

Nassau William Senior

#100. Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

Wayne Knight