Known Quotes

I have a fairly well known name, so for me to do things my way is not that hard.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)

The deserving are not always blest. That peculiar attribute known as personality is as potent a factor as genius.

A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.

My father was the best person i've ever known.

They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.

In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

I spent my first 50 years trying to become known as a writer and the next 30 trying to avoid being famous. I walk down the street or go to a football game and people shout, 'Hey Andy'. I hate that.

As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be known as "put him in the movie because he has nice abs" guy.

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

I'm not known for having great relationships with ex-girlfriends, but I've been able to continue one with (Gwyneth Paltrow) that's really valuable.

It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

We begin to not be human, as we've known it, any longer. But to be just creative minds and action, whereas right now we're confused minds and actions, and our environment mirrors that back to us.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

If I'm known as the girl that lost weight and it's been six years later and I've still kept off the 110 pounds, God bless. Because I never kept off 100 pounds before in my life.

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Schroeder, do you think I'm beautiful?" "I think you're the most beautiful girl the world has ever known..." "You hate me, don't you?

Known to the Lord from the beginning were all your sins. Nevertheless, He still loved you.

Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

There is no known device for artistic contraception.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

People have known me for so long, I'm just Della to them.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.