Known Quotes - page 7

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. (Lynn Abbey)
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values. View quote
Terry Southern
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated. View quote
Brad Henry
So I'm looking to the saxophone as a resource which has its own unique set of possibilities. I'm looking to exploit them and develop them and have the fullest range of possibilities of the saxophone be known. View quote
Evan Parker
The only thing that frightens me a little is when I'm called Kevin rather than Fred, but that's how people have known me for so many years. So, I can't really blame them. View quote
Fred Savage
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. View quote
Federica Montseny
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling. View quote
Henry Charles Carey
The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less. View quote
Howard Coble
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him. View quote
Immanuel Velikovsky
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself. (Jamie Chung)
Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were. View quote
Kato Kaelin
There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them. View quote
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. View quote
Moshe Katsav
People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood. View quote
Omar Epps
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years. View quote
Rob Walton
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. View quote
Robert Morgan
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror. View quote
Robert Stack
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. View quote
Steve Guttenberg
In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore. (Virginia Johnson)
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence. View quote
Pythagoras