Unrecognizable Quotes

#1. When I was single, I was convinced my friends who took the plunge and had their first baby were victims of an alien abduction, because they would disappear from the planet and reappear a year later as unrecognizable strangers.

Jim Gaffigan

#2. No matter what you do for someone-no matter if you feed him a bottle as a baby or curl up with him at night to keep him warm or give him food so he's not hungry-make one wrong move at the wrong moment, and you become someone unrecognizable.

Jodi Picoult

#3. I come from the theater, where I got into acting because I love transforming. I love nothing more than to be unrecognizable.

Nick Offerman

#4. Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

Zadie Smith

#5. The Duke of York remarked that King Ferdinand of Spain had sent a letter to the Prince Regent complaining that many parts of his kingdom had been rendered entirely unrecognizable by the English magician and demanding that Mr Strange return and restore the country to its original form.

Susanna Clarke

#6. Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

Janette Oke

#7. Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

Jean Cocteau

#8. Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.

Loren Eiseley

#9. Katherine is a lawyer, as I said, and she doesn't lie; the truth, however, after it passes through her lips can be unrecognizable.

Brian Haig

#10. But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

Meg Wolitzer

#11. To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be - *that* was magical.

Ransom Riggs

#12. Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.

Joseph Sobran

#13. To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

Michael Angarano

#14. My life had gone to bits and I was so unrecognizable to myself that I probably couldn't have picked me out of a police lineup.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It's really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It's a different type of horse we're using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used ... it's virtually unrecognizable.

Ian Millar

#16. Truth is always an interior and inexplicable contact. My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. My heart has emptied itself of every desire and been reduced to its own final or primary beat.

Clarice Lispector

#17. My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Clarice Lispector

#18. Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the process, Time bares the true essence and beauty of the thing.

Vivian Marie Feggans

#19. I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.

Michael Dorn

#20. She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

Kristin Hannah

#21. To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave - that was magical.

Ransom Riggs

#22. No one likes to be unrecognizable. No one wants to be a stranger to someone who is not a stranger to them.

Catherine Lacey

#23. We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.

Arthur Golden

#24. It's always interesting for me to watch the pilot of an established show because you see how the writers and actors weren't really sure what the show was and what the dynamics were. If you look at the pilot for 'Seinfeld,' for example, it's practically unrecognizable.

Johnny Galecki

#25. When the thing observed ... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

Rudolf Arnheim

#26. If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Jim Yong Kim

#27. The hurt she suffered has encircled her, it seems: it is the virgin's bower, that vine that cannot bear its own weight but lives by twining itself around another, making it's host unrecognizable.

Christina Meldrum

#28. I was unrecognizable even to family. When Kim saw me she yelled," That's not Amy!" Just before she passed out.

Amy Rankin

#29. It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.

Mary Miller

#30. Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.

Mo Ibrahim

#31. I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that particular feeling like your own house on the day you move out.

Barbara Kingsolver

#32. I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.

Bruce Springsteen

#33. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#34. Truth is always an inexplicable inner contact. Truth is unrecognizable. So it doesn't exist? No, For men it doesn't exist.

Clarice Lispector

#35. This traffic-court jester did more than tell jokes; he plucked out your subconscious and beat you silly with it, not until you were unrecognizable, but until you were recognizable.

Paul Beatty

#36. We checked ourselves in the mirror before we left. We were flushed and a little rumpled, but in a good way. We looked vibrant, wild, happy. The hair and the clothes and the makeup made me feel like someone new, but the happy is what made me unrecognizable.

Allie Larkin

#37. Blood and wine are interchangeable.
Love and hate are unrecognizable.
Sanity is no longer with me.

A.P. Sweet

#38. Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming? ...

Eudora Welty

#39. Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

Rachel Nichols

#40. Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

Neil Gaiman

#41. I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.

Sarah Palin

#42. He's disturbingly sexual to men and women alike in a way that sets your teeth on edge. With Barrons you aren't sure if you're going to get fucked or turned inside out and left a new unrecognizable person adrift with no moorings on a see with no bottom and no rules.

Karen Marie Moning

#43. Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

Pico Iyer

#44. I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.

Joseph Bruce

#45. Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

Arthur Golden

#46. Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

Mark Dery

#47. I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems ... or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

Kelley Armstrong

#48. We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.

Lawrence Lessig

#49. Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and people become unrecognizable, but stories are repeated endlessly

Vandana Shanker

#50. Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
[A Conversation with Alice Munro, BookBrowse, 1998]

Alice Munro

#51. No need to get a rumor heading through town that would end up like one of the salmon on the conveyor belt down at the cannery, the head and tail of the story cut off and the middle butchered up until it became something unrecognizable.

Sere Prince Halverson

#52. Guilt tried to surface, the emotion so foreign that it was almost unrecognizable.

Celia Aaron

#53. I used to think I was that girl you remember. And maybe I was, maybe those memories are real, maybe that girl who looked like me really was an angel. But maybe angels fall, maybe the wind blows and just like that they can be twisted into something unrecognizable.

Amy Reed

#54. My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it.

Clarice Lispector

#55. Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

Gorgias