Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced… — Oliver Hazard Perry Copy Share Image
I never want to get pigeonholed or known for one thing. I don't want people to be able to finish my sentences. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the… — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with… — Tara Parker-Pope Copy Share Image
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become. — Jeffrey Toobin Copy Share Image
In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're… — Hazel Scott Copy Share Image
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,… — William James Copy Share Image
My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood — Omar Epps Copy Share Image
It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done. — Robert Earl Keen Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Detroit is known as 'Hockeytown,' but the Lions are truly the soul of the city. — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Gas prices in many parts of the country are nearing $4 a gallon; it could get even worse as unrest spreads throughout… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
This is the amazing thing about you. Had I not known anything about your story, I would have absolutely not a clue… — Piers Morgan Copy Share Image
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When you're working in the [film] industry and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly. — Denny Hamlin Copy Share Image
Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt,… — William James Copy Share Image
Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image