Known Quotes

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

I should’ve known the day was going to turn out bad when it started with my father trying to kill me

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

I guess, - a greater number of the 26 or so albums that I've made are known in Europe than they are in America.

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

I've known Don Mancini for 22 years. We're dear friends. I know his humor, I know his mind.

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

Most of my friends are people I've known since I was a kid. I don't have an entourage or anything.

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

Now I know who you are U got nothin' on me, I see I should've known it from the start You can't tell me lies Don't even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Without the Yamas, known as the ethical rules, there is no success in Yoga

...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.

I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.

Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.

Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

I have no known marketable skills.

None who has known the charity of wine, Its pity, the cool logic of its spell Will waver in his loyalty, or dwell In any heaven where the grape lacks a shrine.

I've never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn't have a big ego. Ego's not a bad thing.

One thing we have to do: Repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare.

As far as Ted Cruz, he's one of the greatest liars and biggest liars I've ever known.

I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life.