Known Quotes
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
I'm known in the trade as Litigiousness because, which means to say I'm willing to pull people into court straight away, no messing, thank you.
It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.
Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.
If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.
Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.
She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.
I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.
As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.
If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.
Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.
My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.
I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
I went from trying to get people just to listen to my music, not necessarily knowing me, to this. I didn't want to be known, because I didn't want to be Fetty Wap... Me, I'm just a background guy.
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.