Known Quotes

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.

I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.

Its hard in the firehouse to avoid the dessert thing. At 3 in the morning after some emergency, I have been known to eat an ice cream sandwich.

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

I didn't want to be known as a man who only made horror films. I made some - very few.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.'

I was known for throwing knives.

It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

Surprisingly, I think if you're known on the Internet, you're probably an introvert.

I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere.

There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. [And] I want to be known for what I do best.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.