Known Quotes

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead.

I just want to be remembered as a dope MC. As somebody who really covered a lot of ground and became internationally known.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

I knew a girl so ugly that she was known as a two-bagger. That's when you put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head breaks.

I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

If men had known how to permeate the soul with mathematics in the right way in the arithmetic lessons during these past years, we should not now have Bolshevism in Eastern Europe.

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy.

For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men the road trip on the way to the destination is often the most fun.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

All that we know is nothing can be known.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

That’s what faith is, right?’ he says. ‘Believing in what can’t be known? Fall into my arms, Dori. I’ll catch you, every time, and I won’t let go.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.