Known Quotes · Page 85

To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

— Robert Kroetsch

In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty…

— Freddie Stroma

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

— Clark Kerr

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

— Anna Held

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

— Confucius

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.

— Albert Camus

Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

— Michael Moriarty

I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.'

— Craig Ferguson

I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense…

— Elizabeth Hand

Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to…

— Gene Roddenberry

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a…

— Noureddine Morceli

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is…

— Garrison Keillor

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known…

— Winston Churchill

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled…

— Aldrich Ames

I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People…

— Billy Connolly

I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was…

— Mart Crowley

Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't…

— Sean Lennon

Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has…

— Michael Tsarion

It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity…

— Herman Bavinck

Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known…

— Petr Skrabanek

Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom,…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it…

— Tim DeKay

When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later…

— Karen Finerman

The true Christian regards all Christ's friends as his friends, members of the same body, children of the same family, soldiers in…

— J. C. Ryle

Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.

— Mary Howitt

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

— Galileo Galilei

I didn't want Ulta to be thought of as the retailer for discounts. I wanted Ulta to be known as a beauty…

— Mary Dillon

They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss.

— Ryan Miller

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

— Lauryn Hill

I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.

— Fat Joe

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'd like to be known as the person who saw things from a different point of view to others.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

A Guitar Store Is The Only Place In The Known Universe Where A Guy Will Allow Himself To Shop Like A Woman

— Tim Brookes

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced…

— Benjamin Franklin

Some of the players are known as scorers or assists. I guess what I am known as being is an ironwoman.

— Heather Mitts

Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

— Joseph de Maistre

I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.

— Rachel Nichols

All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.

— Barry Commoner

... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought…

— Adam Langer

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

— Zhuangzi