Known Quotes · Page 89

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

— Greil Marcus

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

— Judy Gold

I played as a 17-year-old with Walter Smith, who must have been about 32. So I've known Walter for 21 years.

— Richard Gough

No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years…

— Michelle Obama

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

— Rudy Rucker

Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.

— Margaret Heffernan

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as…

— Deepak Chopra

I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.

— John Shelby Spong

I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time.…

— Joey Lawrence

The answer is, of course, to simplify, to prioritize, and in some cases, to use a well-known phrase, "Just say no!" But…

— M. Russell Ballard

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked…

— Condoleezza Rice

But 40 told me to do me and don't listen to anybody that knew me. Cause to have known me would mean…

— Drake

As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love…

— George Eliot

It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to…

— Charles Brent

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when…

— E. L. Doctorow

Only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative. That is creation. What it creates has nothing to do…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass,…

— Robert Bork

Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be…

— Ellen Galinsky

A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And,…

— Trevor Noah

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander…

— Nathaniel Branden

And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from…

— John Ruskin

It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you…

— Paul Newman

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous raw material.…

— Aldo Leopold

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or…

— David Suzuki

Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

— Conan O'Brien

What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

— William Butler Yeats

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

— Michel de Montaigne

“My soul has known yours before we were put here on Earth and it will love you long after we leave it.”

— Ker Dukey

Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

— Nabeshima Naoshige

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

— Howard Nemerov

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

— Edward Kennedy

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

— Henry Hazlitt

Once I had a daughter and I had a wife I knew I was going to enter a completely different world that…

— Mick Hucknall

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

— Lesslie Newbigin

People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

— Jean Cocteau

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one…

— James A. Baldwin

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

— William Gibson

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

— Francois Rabelais

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

— Terry Pratchett