Known Quotes · Page 76

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I've always known why I do what I do. I didn't need to be psychoanalysed to find that out.

— Greil Marcus

While most individuals use the flesh of the coconut in their cooking, coconut water and oil are also known to have numerous…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips

— Clement Freud

Britain has lots of celebrities who are well known and admired today, but we don't seem to have any heroes.

— Munira Mirza

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

— Rene Redzepi

A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.

— King C. Gillette

I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known…

— Alan Watts

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro,…

— Philip Reeve

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in…

— Anonymous

I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do…

— Sharon Kay Penman

I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team…

— David Chang

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better…

— Jessica Valenti

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones…

— Henry Cloud

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will…

— Armand Hammer

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the…

— Meghan O'Rourke

I never saw so intelligent a man have so much trouble in getting out a connected sentence. Ever since I have known…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There's always the syndrome of the parent-child relationship: when someone has known you since you were very young, it doesn't matter how…

— Helene Grimaud

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an…

— Walter Lippmann

Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life…

— John Hardon

The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are…

— Thomas Jefferson

[Maggie Smith] brings new meaning to the phrase "doesn't suffer fools." She has just the most amazing, dry timing of anyone ever,…

— Rob Lowe

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.

— Laurence Sterne

The known unseen within becomes structural in what is seen: a being functioning as a self, in person, in this world.

— John de Ruiter

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

— John Calvin

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

— Thomas Aquinas

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

— Lord Chesterfield

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

— Gordon Parker

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.

— Rokia Traore

Not much is known about alligators. They don't train well. And they're unwieldy and rowdy to work with in laboratories.

— Diane Ackerman

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been…

— Harry S. Truman

I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.

— Jerome Kerviel

President Obama was well known for his interfering in Justice Department matters.

— Trish Regan

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

— Chris Tucker

Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise.

— James Black

“Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the…

— Steven Magee

The world is known by the senses The senses are known by the mind The mind is known by Consciousness And Consciousness…

— Rupert Spira

If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I…

— Andy Rooney