Well Known Quotes

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

I want Virgin to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola.

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.

It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was. I was a well-known person who was very alone.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

Muti is going to do the Alpine Symphony this year. He will do it well because it is not very well known.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

To establish yourself as an actress, you have to become well known. A girl just starting out, I would tell her to concentrate on acting, but she doesn't have to go around wearing blankets.

There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

I have made my thoughts on it (sledging) well known over the last couple of years. We are more than happy to be talking to opposition players in the field so long as it is not personal or abusive.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.

As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

I have a fairly well known name, so for me to do things my way is not that hard.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)

I am the most well-known homosexual in the world.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

The biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.