Known Quotes

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it's probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met No doubt in my mind where you belong

I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Traveling by motor is just one situation after another. ... No matter what happens, don't scream; a scream at the wrong moment has often been known to cause a stall.

Subject is known by what she sees.

Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Even though Kate had only known Hale for a little more than two years, she had seen him in a lot of situations.

If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

Princess." He smiled up at me, but it was weak. "If i'd known that this is what it would take to get you to hold me, I would've collapsed a long time ago.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.