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I don't believe you've seen the best of The Hayemaker yet. I want to leave on the top of the game. Recognised as the best heavyweight fighter on the planet, then I can hang the gloves back up in peace. -- David Haye
It's cool to be recognised by your peers. -- Frank Ocean
The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet. -- Vincent Cassel
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft. -- Vidal Sassoon
I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. -- Sia Furler
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else. -- Anna Kendrick
The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised. -- Marc Jacobs
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
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
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
I always want to push myself as far as possible; I always want to be up there and recognised as a good goalie and have people appreciate what you do. -- Henrik Lundqvist
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
It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters. -- Luke Evans
I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that. -- Carey Mulligan
Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
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
One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. -- Stephen Hawking
I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage. -- Tony Abbott
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not. -- Jane Smiley
The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable. -- Khloe Kardashian
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do. -- Robert Winston
As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. -- Tom Hanks
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised. -- Frank Ocean
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness. -- Umberto Eco
More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures. -- Damian Marley
I never get recognised. -- Allen Leech
I'm not recognised much at all. -- Laura Carmichael
I used to hate being recognised. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
I don't really get recognised very much. -- Laura Carmichael
Small towns are the worst for getting recognised. -- Wayne Knight
I almost never get recognised in the street. -- Lena Headey
My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria. -- Nneka
It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture. -- Robert Frost
I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived -- Muhammad Ali
Being recognised on the street in New York is pretty surreal. -- Sophie McShera
An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me. -- Samuel Alexander
He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret. -- Kassandra Cross
To be recognised by a whole country is incredible. This is massive. -- Zinedine Zidane
I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material. -- Randeep Hooda
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely. -- David Nicholls
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. -- Andre Breton
Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country. -- Jahangir Khan
... time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ... -- Kate Morton
'Monty Python' is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series. -- Mark Gatiss
It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised. -- Nancy Sinatra
Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use. -- Johannes Kepler
Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it. -- Barry Long
I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work. -- Rupert Grint
It's weird to be recognised anywhere. The cost of living your dream, acting, is being recognised. -- Colin Morgan
I get recognised in town a bit; I wouldn't say it's hindering my life in any way. -- April Pearson
People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do. -- Karni Liddell
The hemulen woke up slowly and recognised himself and wished he had been someone he didn't know. -- Tove Jansson
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. -- Justin Welby
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society. -- Justin Welby
The love of money as a possession...will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity. -- John Maynard Keynes
The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television. -- Gina Bellman
Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God. -- Bill Johnson
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats. -- Murray Walker
You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world. -- Mo Yan
I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. -- Idris Elba
As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying. -- Holliday Grainger
As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying. -- Holliday Grainger
Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably. -- Walter Benjamin
I get recognised, but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that. -- Emilie de Ravin
I get recognised, but Im not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that. -- Emilie de Ravin
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me. -- Tori Amos
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
It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide. -- Jane Goodall
I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays. -- Charlie Adam
The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional. -- John Polson
I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good. -- Brooke Fraser
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
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. -- Osbert Sitwell
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
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
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
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
Royal titles ceased to be recognised by the Indian government in 1971. The title of Nawab and Maharaja are not recognised by the Indian government anymore. -- Saif Ali Khan
Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination. -- Richard Tarnas
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history. -- Jeremy Corbyn
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
To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice? -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends. -- Maddie Ziegler
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
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
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
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
I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when Peep Show or the sketch show is on the telly or when were doing loads of interviews. -- Robert Webb
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
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, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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
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, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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
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I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican. -- Roddy Doyle
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
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
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons! -- Christine Lahti
I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me. -- Alison Krauss
Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business. -- Jim Cantalupo
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient, -- Pierre Cardin
The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value. -- Peter Robinson
I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins. -- Khaled Hosseini
Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching. -- Gautama Buddha
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I get recognised a lot. If there are a load of school kids together, they'll shout at me, but I'm quite good at giving grief back. I give as good as I get. -- Konnie Huq
When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes -- Darren Hayes
Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on. -- John Hurt
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.
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
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
I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have. -- James Frey

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