Unknown Quotes
1920 Unknown quotes by 1232 unique authors
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Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And…
— Daria Werbowy
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When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate…
— E. O. Wilson
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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting…
— William Wordsworth
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As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid,…
— Rachel Zoe
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There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
— Helen Fisher
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I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and…
— Evgeny Morozov
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There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery
— David Lynch
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Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing…
— Tony Kushner
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I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to…
— Haruki Murakami
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Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell…
— Eugene O'Neill
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All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear…
— Bram Stoker
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
— H P Lovecraft
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I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms…
— William Shakespeare
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When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for…
— Maya Angelou
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How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
— Bob Dylan
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If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him…
— Rajneesh
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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is…
— Edward Teller
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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