Best Well Known Quotations
346 Well Known quotes by 313 unique authors
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Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force,…
— Evan Parker
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I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there.…
— Kimbra
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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at…
— Henry Flynt
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Ultimately the presence of other well known players is driving us to build a more compelling, innovative product.
— Josh Williams
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My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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There are, I think, three countries left in the world where I can go and I'm not as well-known as I am here. I'm a…
— Bruce Willis
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I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
— Matt Drudge
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It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating…
— Henry Fielding
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Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
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It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them…
— Lennart Nilsson
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The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age;…
— Blaise Pascal
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It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.
— Maxwell Maltz
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Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
— Anatoly Karpov
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Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
— Moshe Katsav
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It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given…
— Tom Cruise
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It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end…
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse,…
— Alfred Kinsey
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He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
— Barry Humphries
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It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
— Savielly Tartakower
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Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite…
— Luigi Russolo
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I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become…
— Leonid Afremov
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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
— Joshua Slocum
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have…
— John Cage
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Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians…
— Ramsay MacMullen
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