Known Quotes · Page 9

Nausea is an unsolved problem of medicine and marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science.

— Peter McWilliams

I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.

— Liz Phair

I think it seems like a natural progression to go into directing, and I hope to explore more of it, because it's…

— Lucy Liu

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

— Margaret Mead

Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of…

— Richard M. Weaver

GGG is known for his knockouts. I knock out people, too, but I'm a better boxer than him.

— Demetrius Andrade

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve…

— John Glenn

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the…

— W. W. Sawyer

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

— Booker T. Washington

I love acting. I really do. I think that's maybe the one thing that is known about me.

— Melissa Leo

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

— Fred Thompson

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to…

— Paul Smith

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous,…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

I do like Christmas. I do understand that there are people who hate it, and there are other religions that resent it.…

— John Waters

The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't…

— Doug Stanhope

The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of…

— Samuel Johnson

I've been known to preach.

— Kevin Hart

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not…

— Benjamin Graham

I hate walking around known as a team that loses all the time.

— Carl Crawford

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again…

— Daniel Dennett

“In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being…

— Sigmund Freud