Known Quotes · Page 67

There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth…

— Elizabeth Arden

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

— Iris Murdoch

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the…

— Tom Petty

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but…

— Kathy Baker

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

— Chris Kilham

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of…

— Stephen Merchant

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those…

— Martin Van Creveld

I have known Krishna Chaitanya for many years as a friend. I have all the freedom when it comes to working him.

— Nithiin

It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that…

— Kelly Corrigan

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's…

— Princess Margaret

Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known,…

— Charles Darwin

I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had…

— Caroline Leavitt

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took…

— Bob Woodward

This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the…

— Christopher Cokinos

Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine…

— Thomas Szasz

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book,and dismiss whatever insults your own soul... It is…

— Walt Whitman

I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have been a lot more relaxed. I'm really happy…

— Sarah Blasko

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I…

— Indira Gandhi

At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical…

— Gore Vidal

As a kid, you either wanted to play Bond or a Bond villain. Ask any of my friends in entertainment, whether they…

— Robert Davi

Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From…

— Eric S. Raymond

Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other,…

— Thomas Merton

...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as…

— Saint Augustine

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

— Virginia Woolf

Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

— John Longenecker

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen

I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

— Marianne Williamson

What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at…

— Willa Cather

I really want to share my story, but also make Paralympics more well known.

— Jessica Long

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

— Eva Gabor

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

— Roger Penrose

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I…

— e. e. cummings

I think I'd be depressed if everything were nearly all known, but I don't feel any danger of that happening.

— Jim Peebles

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

— Plautus

When you are known, you do have people who love you very much and also those who hate you for what you…

— Anu Malik

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.

— Wendell Berry

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I…

— Aaliyah