Selected recognition quotes

1. If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

2. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

3. Why is my autograph so little in demand, except on checks?

4. Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

5. I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

6. Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

7. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

8. All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.

9. As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

10. Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

11. I've always wanted to see my name up in tights.

12. For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

13. America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect.

14. Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

15. An honor is not diminished for being shared.

16. I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

17. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

18. I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

19. Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

20. You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.

21. A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

22. A good deed hidden in silence dies.

23. I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

24. The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

25. I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

26. You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

27. In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

28. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

29. It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

30. Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.

31. You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

32. We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

33. I've searched all the parks in all the cities And found no statues of committees.

34. Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door.

35. A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest, as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

36. The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.'

37. The glory and the nothing of a name.

38. I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God...'

39. Ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

40. 'If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.'

41. La science de la mere comporte des merites silencieux, ignores de tous, sans parade, une vertu en detail, un devouement de toutes les heures.

42. I would say that Don Meredith's erratic march to the Emmy, the most treasured of all broadcast awards, in his first year of TV work has to be regarded as one of the great feats of modern times.

43. 'I think we shall have to give the region a name. What do you propose?' 'The Porter settled that some time ago,' said the Second Voice. 'Train for Niggle's Parish in the bay; he has shouted that for a long while now. Niggle's Parish. I sent a message to both of them to tell them.' 'What did they say?' 'They both laughed. Laughed - the Mountains rang with it!'

44. 'One time me and Davey were walking down the street and this guy comes up to us and is all, 'Ya'll must be from Grateful Dead!'

45. Uh, we are 30 Seconds To Mars and it is our...ungodly pleasure, and privilege - we're grateful beyond believe - to be the 'Artists of the Day.' Thank you so much. (Tomo, Shannon, Matt -'Thank you')

46. The Warrior has won the title!

47. It's The Doors, the name of the band is The Doors. (in response to a DJ announcing to the audience: 'Please welcome Jim Morrison and the Doors!')

48. For those of you who are keeping score at home, I just want to make something very clear: Martin Scorsese, zero Oscars. Three 6 Mafia, one.

49. Not granting me the Nobel Prize has become a scandinavian tradition; since I was born - August 24, 1899 - they have not been granting it to me.

50. The network called up and said 'We piggybacked you on the deal for another show,' I'm like 'Okay, so what you're saying to my writers is that they weren't picked up when they thought they were and now that they are it was because of something that has nothing to do with them. Okay. Great. Stop calling'.

51. He is the lord of goodly things That make the poor man's table gay, Yet of his worth no minstrel sings And on his tomb there is no bay.

52. Heathcliff, it's me - Cathy.

53. You say we're fantastic, But still we don't head the bill. Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Unbelievable!

54. Just like a photograph, I pick you up. Just like a station on the radio, I pick you up.

55. 'I think Kobe Bryant should be at the top of the (MVP) list. His game is unstoppable.' - w:Amare Stoudemire[12]

56. The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention.

57. Let it not be said, wherever there is energy or creative genius, 'She has a masculine mind.' This by no means argues a willing want of generosity toward Woman. Man is as generous towards her as he knows how to be. Wherever she has herself arisen in national or private history, and nobly shone forth in any form of excellence, men have received her, not only willingly, but with triumph.

58. My great ambition is to have people comment on my fine dramatic performances.

59. Of every album I have listened to, the best of the year by far has been Invincible. Michael Jackson deserves a lot more credit than he is getting, one of the most influential performers of all time.

60. Edge I will like to thank you for bringing me back the hardcore legend!

61. The Report calls for direct talks for Palestinians who 'accept Israel's right to exist' (an absurd demand) but does not restrict Israelis to those who accept the right of a Palestinian state to exist, which would, for example, exclude Israel's Prime Minister Olmert, who received a rousing ovation in Congress when he declared that Israel's historic right to the land from Jordan to the sea is beyond question.

62. 'Though barely known in the country of his birth, elsewhere in the world Norman Borlaug is widely considered to be among the leading Americans of our age ... Norman Borlaug has already saved more lives than any other person who ever lived ... Borlaug is responsible for the fact that throughout the postwar era, except in sub-Saharan Africa, global food production has expanded faster than the human population, averting the mass starvations that were widely predicted -- for example, in the 1967 best seller Famine -- 1975! The form of agriculture that Borlaug preaches may have prevented a billion deaths.'

63. 'Scientist. Teacher. Humanitarian. Nobel Laureate. Father of the Green Revolution. Those terms describe Dr. Norman Borlaug, who is distinguished professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University, but they can't possibly capture the magnitude of his accomplishments.'

64. At dinner we talked much of Cromwell, all saying he was a brave fellow and did owe his crown he got to himself, as much as any man that ever got one.

65. There was beauty to him that for just a moment stirred in her a kind of recognition, perhaps a desire; the thought passed through her mind, is this how angels look, beneath their robes, shed of their wings?

66. I want you. I know you tried to find. ~ 'Farmer Vs. River'

67. O combien d'actions, combien d'exploits celebres Sont demeures sans gloire au milieu des tenebres.

68. Somewhere there must be Something that's different from everything. All that I've never thought of - think of me!

69. He is by all odds the most brilliant young physicist here, and everyone knows this.

70. Robert Byrd is already recognized as an American icon. Without question, when history is written, Senator Byrd will hold a prominent place as a Senate legend.

71. The kindergarten essay got into that underground press we all belong to where something just sort of has a life of its own and moves around and it gets on refrigerators and in the work place and people copy it... I was a minister in the Unitarian church at the time and teaching and I was ready to stop that and do the next phase of my life. So I had quit both those jobs and I was all set up with my studio in Seattle when this other horse came riding by ... I'm not a great writer and I'll never get the Nobel Prize or a Pulitzer Prize but I've won the refrigerator door award. And you don't see Faulkner on people's refrigerator.

72. Not to recognize the daimonic itself turns out to be daimonic, it makes us accomplices on the side of the destructive possession.

73. And I wanted to say to the mayor of New York all our concern, our admiration for what has been done after this drama, with such an efficiency, very full of clever and heart. I told him that in the French press, when they mention the mayor of New York, they say 'mayor hero' (ph), which is a French expression equivalent to 'Rudy the Rock'.

74. General Crook gave me a very agreeable present this afternoon - a pair of his old brigadier-general straps. The stars are somewhat dimmed by hard service, but will correspond pretty well with my rusty old blouse. Of course I am very much gratified by the promotion. I know perfectly well that the rank has been conferred on all sorts of small people and so cheapened shamefully, but I can't help feeling that getting it at the close of a most bloody campaign on the recommendation of fighting generals like Crook and Sheridan is a different thing.

75. His death made him famous, he can come back now.

76. My daughter used to think I was Aamir Khan. She could not recognise me on screen. So much so that every time I came on screen she used to call out, `Aamir Khan',' - Shahrukh (with a big grin)

77. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? without the favour of the everlasting Register the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methusaleh's long life had been his only Chronicle.

78. I think the universality of His Holiness' words and teachings have made this so much bigger than just Tibet. When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

79. 'But now please stand in recognition of the World Wrestling Federation Champion' (before Bret's entrance in WM12)

80. I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it.

81. He lived amidst th'untrodden ways To Rydal Lake that lead:- A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Behind a cloud his mystic sense, Deep-hidden, who can spy? Bright as the night, when not a star Is shining in the sky. Unread his works - his 'Milk-white Doe' With dust is dark and dim; It's still in Longman's shop, and Oh! The difference to him!

82. The object of presenting medals, stars, and ribbons is to give pride and pleasure to those who have deserved them.

83. I was supremely confident my flair for atmosphere and characterization would sparkle alongside the numbing mulch ground out by studio hacks. Certainly the space atop my mantel might be better festooned by a gold statuette than by the plastic dipping bird that now bobbed there ad infinitum.

84. 'I'm saying that a lot of Christians want to be recognized for their godliness, and a lot of people mistake the recognition for godliness itself.'

85. In addition to her high-profile work on cults, Singer was also an authority on schizophrenia, and was nominated twice for a Nobel Prize for her research.

86. Who would have planted the cane, run the mills and funded the colony if they had gone to battle?

87. One of the most engaging artists to emerge from Great Britain in the last decade. ~ Art in America

88. ...that made Lee arguably the greatest martial artist of his time, or any other.

89. 'She's at the top of her class.' Diane Warren, writer

90. 'But more than anything, she's an incredible vocalist.' Steve Kurtz

91. :the outstanding Marine of all time:

92. 'Sir Edmund Hillary : King Of The World' in NZEdge

93. 'The one Brian did, the George Formby, uh, God what's it called, um... You know the George Formby ukulele number on A Night At The Opera? God I've forgotten the name, um, uh...oh dear. Anyway..it's the, guah, what's it called! A Night At The Opera....ah, I'll think about it in a minute!' (the song Freddie forgot about was Good Company)

94. 'Niggle's Picture!' said Parish in astonishment. 'Did you think of all this, Niggle? I never knew you were so clever. Why didn't you tell me?' 'He tried to tell you long ago,' said the man; 'but you would not look. He had only got canvas and paint in those days, and you wanted to mend your roof with them. This is what you and your wife used to call Niggle's Nonsense, or That Daubing.' 'But it did not look like this then, not real,' said Parish. 'No, it was only a glimpse then,' said the man; 'but you might have caught the glimpse, if you had ever thought it worth while to try.' 'I did not give you much chance,' said Niggle. 'I never tried to explain. I used to call you Old Earth-grubber. But what does it matter? We have lived and worked together now. Things might have been different, but they could not have been better. All the same, I am afraid I shall have to be going on. We shall meet again, I expect: there must be many more things we can do together. Good-bye!'

95. 'Jude Law is one of the finest actors of our time ...' - Sean Penn

96. 'Through one of those fantastical phone calls when your agent calls you and says 'Stephen Spielberg is on the phone, he wants to speak to you about his next film.' And once you've peeled yourself of the ceiling you go, *clears throat* Yeah, great.' - about how he got the role of Gigolo Joe

97. So I pray the gods may hear even me, and let my whispered yes tower above my shouted no and mount all the way to their fivefold realm. As I would be heard, so I hear you.*

98. Was that disloyal of me? To look forward to the day when I could show you my work? Who else but you would understand what I achieved? Who else but me could know how far beyond our dreams you succeeded? We changed the world

99. Each incapable of knowing the others virtue, because like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others

100. Even those regarded as evil want their deeds to be known