Known Quotes · Page 54

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's…

— Morley Safer

Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.

— Chris Kilham

I recognized that there are some well-known, little understood, and seldom practiced laws that we must live by if we wish to…

— Peace Pilgrim

Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God.

— Karl Marx

I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's…

— Patty Griffin

Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen…

— J. G. Holland

“I want to be known as unknown.”

— CQAnonymoud

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty,…

— Federica Montseny

. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that…

— Viktor E. Frankl

We cannot afford to burn the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves.

— Caroline Lucas

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People…

— Neil Gaiman

Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in…

— Rod Parsley

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not…

— Robert Morgan

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control…

— Rosie O'Donnell

I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in…

— Ricky Gervais

Many have forgotten what we came here for, Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor. Just growin' not…

— Chuck D

This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as…

— Georgiana Burne-Jones

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

— Gene Tierney

I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

— Steve Young

My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in…

— Holly Madison

One thing we have to do: Repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare.

— Donald Trump

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

— Rene Redzepi

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be…

— Robert Cormier