Known Quotes

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

So that they can actually make it known to the American people before they vote what they're voting for.

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

I've seen it all, done it all, known it all.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.