Known Quotes

A Guitar Store Is The Only Place In The Known Universe Where A Guy Will Allow Himself To Shop Like A Woman

LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.

My now-wife - we got together in '81, we married a few years after - she's been very good in the past about going in the theater with me to see actresses I had known. But then, she's not an actress.

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

I had the insane misconception that I was ready to conquer the known universe with Tähtivaeltaja. No mercy!

Glenn Hoddle was probably the unfunniest man I have ever known

When the new gun booklet was recently mailed to all licensed shooters, 20% were returned as 'not known at this address.

As is well known, [Carrie Fisher] suffered - and was open about it. Her transparency was courageous, which is why people loved her.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver thats fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

I'm a known reader. That's what I do with my time.

Defense. That' the thing I'm known for.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other.

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level.

The aviation industry, including combat air force, has been traditionally developing here. It is the Russian Far East where the SU aircraft, which are well known worldwide, are manufactured.

By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

A parade is the worst form of transportation known to man.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.