Known Quotes

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.

There are only two ways to deal with the media: either elect to take the Buddha's vow of eternal silence, or make one's voice known as responsibly as one humanly can, and take the consequences.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.

I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.

She had never had a boy talk to her like that. There was no cover of bullshit, no flirtation, no added charm, but his look was searing. He was different from anyone she had known.

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

The quality of a person's character can be known partly by the attitude of his ally who likes him TRULY and, probably full, by understanding who he likes REALLY as his buddy with his behavior.

To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.

A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.

Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

My grandfather had been a well-known judge in Berlin.

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

I'm not into clubbing. I want to be known for my work.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.

America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

Nora: I have questions. Patch: I should have known you've only been keeping me around for answers. Nora: Well, that and your kisses. Anyone ever tell you you're an incredible kisser?

There's more well-known artists who aren't making as good songs as people who are just coming out of nowhere. That seems to be more typical in the last few years than ever.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.

I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.

Today we are confronted with reality on the vastest scale mankind has known and this puts a greater responsibility on the photographer.

I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

I still stay in touch with Elinor Donahue. I've known Elinor since she was 14-years-old.