Unknown Quotes
1920 quotes by 1232 authors
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The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic…
— Karl Abraham
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
— Felix Baumgartner
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The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in…
— Louis Sullivan
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I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
— Radha Mitchell
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I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted…
— Jimmy Nail
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and…
— Haley Joel Osment
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Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions.…
— Carl Jung
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The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In…
— Brian Jacques
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown.…
— Oren Peli
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre…
— Oren Peli
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue…
— Garth Stein
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Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
— Kiki Smith
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It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be…
— Frederick Lenz
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Beyond this world, beyond other worlds, be they inter-dimensional worlds or physical worlds, there is something else, which is the vast unknown eternity.
— Frederick Lenz
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's…
— Laini Taylor
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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to…
— George Tenet
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And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the…
— Julie Taymor
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