Known Quotes

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People shout: "Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy.".

Today is the greatest Day I've ever known Can't live for tomorrow, Tomorrow's much too long.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected.

The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates.

Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

We might be known for what we believed, but we're certain to be remembered for what we did about it.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

Around comics, I've always been known for, oh, that's not dirty, this is dirty.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.

I haven't known life to be any happier.

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.

It's not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.

I'm known as a winner now.

I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

We've known for years that the president of the United States is a cyberbully, a misogynist who has this thing about women and blood.

George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

Although I'm predominantly known for game-shows, I do prefer to be known as a performer.

There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a pretty big star, folks - I don't have to tell you. Superstar, I guess you could say.

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

I don't want to be known just as 'Carrot Top.' I don't always want to be this crazy, goofy guy.

I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I've ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?

Do you normally turn up in gentlemen's bedrooms in the middle of the night? If I'd known that, I would have campaigned harder to make sure Charlotte let you stay.