Known Quotes

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

I'm so frightened of these two people, Bill and Hillary [Clintons], that I'm making an all-out effort to make the truth known about these horrific practices.

When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

When we step out into the unknown that is when God is made known.

The ideas of things intellectually known pass into the substance of the intellect much more than do foods into the substance of the body.

That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

You're not gonna be known as nothing if you don't win.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased with himself as he leaves the boudoir of a lady.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.

Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.

I dunno, around 11th grade, 12th grade I was just like "yeah. This is something I want to do". I was always known; I was always the rapper.

Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

I want to be known as the best teammate ever.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Every secret gets known to the world.

If it had blown up, I wouldn’t have known a thing about it.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

I just want to be known as a clown because to me, that's the height of my profession. It means you can do everything - sing, dance and, above all, make people laugh.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.