Recognizable Quotes

108 quotes by 106 authors

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade.… — Joy Williams
Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would… — Suzan-Lori Parks
To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But… — Raymond Sokolov
I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having… — Cliff Martinez
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… — Ludwig von Mises
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what… — Milan Kundera
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and… — Havelock Ellis
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
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… — Anwar Sadat
It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. — Matthew Macfadyen
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in… — LeRoy Neiman
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross. — Zack Snyder
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
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience. — Dario Argento
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam
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,… — Manolo Blahnik
The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable. — Linda Cardellini
The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style. — Willem Dafoe
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… — Philip Johnson

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