Known Quotes · Page 105

You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.

— Debra Granik

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who…

— Mandy Moore

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

— David Letterman

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

— Robert M. T. Hunter

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can…

— Caitlin Flanagan

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

— Herbert Lockyer

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my…

— Sidney Sheldon

It's comprised of both Republicans and Democrats and their membership in this club known as the establishment, party affiliation is second or…

— Rush Limbaugh

You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen,…

— Trevor Nunn

The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to…

— Lord Chesterfield

It's not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in…

— Gerry Beckley

People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to…

— Ben Hecht

“I’ve known you a long time. I’ve seen you before you made the team and gained the popularity, turning into the jerk…

— Melyssa Winchester

In 1980, evangelicals overwhelmingly elected a candidate who was a known womanizer when he was in Hollywood. He would be the first…

— Robert Jeffress

A case can certainly be made that Christians bear a major responsibility for our ecological crisis. But the fault is not their…

— James W. Sire

[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted…

— Alistair Cooke

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque…

— Dan Brown

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and…

— Robert Adams

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black…

— Geraldine Brooks

I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.

— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

Color is the thing I'm best known for. If people pigeonhole me, so what? Long live the pink dress!

— Matthew Williamson

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

— Penn Jillette

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit…

— Vera Wang

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the…

— David Geffen

Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious…

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

— Grant Morrison

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

— Joe Cocker

I don't want to be known just as 'Carrot Top.' I don't always want to be this crazy, goofy guy.

— Carrot Top

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known…

— Robert Boyle

The films of Gregg Araki may not be classified as horror, but they have been known to horrify viewers.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

— Desmond Tutu

All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at…

— William Butler Yeats

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

— Charles Fourier

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

— Claude Levi-Strauss