I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather,…

— Bernadette Roberts

I think Rhaenyra is primarily motivated by a deep desire to be known and seen.

— Emma D'Arcy

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the…

— Raymond Bonner

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

— Kenneth Koch

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

— Anonymous

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

— Henry Fielding

it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the…

— Cesar Chavez

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

— Anthony Trollope

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

— Raj Chetty

I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's…

— Sally Hawkins

That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

— Nigel Farage

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a…

— George Clooney