#recognise

I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it. ↗

— Joan Allen

#adult #i #i think #knew #place

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#burning #comes #go #i #man

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

#am #any #been #being #capable

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#free world #long #recognise #regime #see

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#attitude #best #best way #come #field

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

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

#belonged #brought #even #feel #film

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

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

#benefiting #bicycle #business #claus #element

I don't really get recognised very much. ↗

— Laura Carmichael

#i #much #really #recognised #very