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I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable. -- Dick Van Patten
The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style. -- Willem Dafoe
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. -- Steven Amsterdam
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. -- Seamus Heaney
I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me. -- Patti Stanger
I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away. -- Shaun White
I've never figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you hire me, and it will be recognizable.' -- Heath Ledger
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable. -- Pat Metheny
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. -- Philip Johnson
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable. -- Cormac McCarthy
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs. -- Martin Filler
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. -- Annie Dillard
I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead. -- Mary Crosby
The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon. -- Dana Goodyear
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters. -- J. G. Ballard
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it. -- Robert Fripp
I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions. -- Cliff Martinez
Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate. -- David Augsburger
I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. -- Chuck Close
I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed. -- Henry Rollins
There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments. -- Diablo Cody
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life. -- Jerry Saltz
I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off. -- Jeff Beck
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle. -- David A. Bednar
Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature. -- Manolo Blahnik
Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man. -- Jonah Hill
I don't want to be famous, or recognizable, -- Sia Furler
The only recognizable feature of hope is action. -- Grace Paley
Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural. -- Anthony Bourdain
I wanted my style to be very recognizable. -- Robert Barry
Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. -- Seneca the Younger
Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless -- Bob Verdi
It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. -- Matthew Macfadyen
If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters. -- Seth MacFarlane
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience. -- Dario Argento
The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general. -- Carol Kane
Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations. -- Walter Hill
I like to use recognizable songs, but other than that, this song would be perfect. -- Girl Talk
There were so many things of value in the original Mac that it is still recognizable. -- Phil Schiller
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. -- Mary McCarthy
The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable. -- Linda Cardellini
I've been very, very successful at building probably the most recognizable, physically recognizable brand in personal development. -- Larry Winget
Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too. -- Monica Lewinsky
One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound. -- Jerry Cantrell
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target -- Richard Wright
I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented. -- Huey Lewis
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable. -- Brian K. Vaughan
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. -- Zack Snyder
If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything. -- Mary McCarthy
The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring. -- Kurt Vonnegut
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians. -- Dan Simmons
Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good? -- James Ellroy
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like. -- Joe Klein
How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself? -- Nicole Krauss
Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human. -- Richard Gere
I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous. -- Henry Rollins
It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something. -- Gloria Steinem
The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question. -- Gustave Le Bon
Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging -- but that weren't sweet. -- Miles Davis
Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable. -- Pat Metheny
Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign. -- Squeak Carnwath
I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge. -- Anwar Sadat
I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one. -- Henry Rollins
Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated. -- Diablo Cody
The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands. -- Hector Elizondo
When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I possibly could, at the expense of both my health and personal relationships. -- Steve-O
Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields. -- Anton Chekhov
When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that. -- Brooklyn Sudano
I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview. -- Billy Al Bengston
Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were. -- Keanu Reeves
A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chimerical fragrances able to evoke melancholic memories. -- Bentley Little
It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in. -- Danny Meyer
I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do. -- Peter Morgan
To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable. -- Isaac Asimov
In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings. -- Billy Collins
However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable. -- Claire Danes
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them. -- Doris Lessing
Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names. -- Romany Malco
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes can give the overall presentation a recognizable, yet unique flavor. -- John Dyer Baizley
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal. -- Ludwig von Mises
And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something. -- Steve Burns
What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause. -- Chang-Rae Lee

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