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Quotes About Known

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.
~ Ami McKay, The Birth House
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
~ Plato
The marooned friend is one of the best-known scams, principally because it's the one that dodges the spam filter most often. It comes from someone you know but often only tangentially. It's since become - hands down - one of my favourite scams.
~ James Veitch
The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
~ Mahershala Ali
The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
~ Buffalo Bill
It is only a certain type of mind that scorns what is known by all and treats secrets as jewels.
~ Neal Stephenson
I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it's become what I'm most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.
~ Paulo Costanzo
I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.
~ Christa Wolf
He is the greatest healer our kind has ever known and my teacher. He is also a master of destruction and bodyguard to our Prince. He terrifies me. He terrifies everyone.
~ Christine Feehan
but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?
~ Christopher Moore
The history of every place is the history of the people inside it and the people outside it. The history of every person is the history of the love they've known and the hate they've grown.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
The most popular of these numbers is called "value at risk." No judgment or understanding of the assets is necessary; all you have to do is look at the number. Yet the world of money is an uncertain world, not one of known risks.
~ Gerd Gigerenzer
She was known there and the chaos on the street was more predictable and less personal than the pain at home.
~ Gini Sikes
Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.
~ Glen Duncan
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
~ Jack Vance
Okay, a lot of people think that I'm someone known for a love of eggs and egg cookery. Being asked to endorse an egg yolk separator, I mean, I understood where it came from, but it didn't seem necessarily like something that was ultimately worth pursuing.
~ Wylie Dufresne
To be honest, I think NBA experience and years trumps everything else. It's unfortunate but when you come from somewhere else it's known that you don't have NBA experience and the NBA is so different to everywhere else so in that sense you need those years.
~ Patty Mills
I mean, an actor's got to be known for something. Typecasting is an unfortunate kind of reflex punishment for having done a good job. But what's the alternative? To not do a good job?
~ John de Lancie
Every known thing used to be unknownAnd every rock could become a stone Someday nature will have to atone When soul sees dead flesh leaving the bone
~ Munia Khan
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
~ Charley Reese
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
~ Alexander Pushkin
The nature of rumor is known to all.
~ Tertullian