Well Known famous quotes

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
-- Alan Alda

#Nicknames #Well Known #Wells

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
-- Albert Camus

#Facts #Well Known #Homeland

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals
-- Anatol Rapoport

#Two #Facts #Well Known

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

#Depth #Chess #Well Known

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.
-- Anna Chancellor

#Funeral #Four #Well Known

A person’s own opinion is the best companion of his life, but first search it on web to ensure that it is truly his own and not others thrown or well known in one or other words form.
-- Anuj

#Firsts #Opinion #Well Known

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 game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch

#Games #Chess #Well Known

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.
-- Barry Humphries

#Luck #World #Well Known

My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here
-- Bob Bruce

#Swimming #My Favorite #Well Known

And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
-- Boethius

#Thinking #Fame #Well Known

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
-- Charley Pride

#Names #Politician #Well Known

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
-- David Crystal

#People #Stories #Well Known

If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.
-- Eddie Izzard

#Comedian #Labels #Well Known

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.
-- Emmanuelle Beart

#Thinking #Actresses #Well Known

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
-- Feisal Abdul Rauf

#World #Today #Well Known

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
-- Francis Bacon

#Fate #Men #Well Known

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.
-- G. Stanley Hall

#Well Known #Wells #Menstruation

I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are.
-- Helena Bonham Carter

#Thinking #People #Well Known

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'
-- Hermann Hesse

#Two #Republic #Well Known

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Thinking #Wind #Well Known

It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Lasts #Well Known #Victim

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis

#Regret #Thinking #Well Known

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.
-- Jeffrey Wright

#Character #Suits #Well Known

[Clause in her will:] It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.
-- Joan Crawford

#Daughter #Son #Well Known

Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
-- John M. McHugh

#Commitment #Expectations #Well Known

Ultimately the presence of other well known players is driving us to build a more compelling, innovative product.
-- Josh Williams

#Player #Driving #Well Known

Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
-- Joshua Slocum

#Steps #Well Known #Wells

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
-- Karen DeCrow

#Feminist #Well Known #Century

The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.
-- Kenneth E. Iverson

#Tools #Language #Well Known

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.
-- Kid Cudi

#Levels #Well Known #Certain

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.
-- Marilyn Manson

#Hero #People #Well Known

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.
-- Moshe Katsav

#Well Known #Manners #Persian

Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates.  It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
-- Nabeshima Naoshige

#Lying #Gold #Well Known

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
-- Nat King Cole

#Helping #Wonder #Well Known

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
-- Nigel Farage

#Levels #Well Known #Integration

Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.
-- Noah Baumbach

#People #Well Known #Wells

I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
-- Patrice Leconte

#Film #Well Known #Wells

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
-- Plato

#Wealth #Well Known #Wells

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.
-- Richard E. Grant

#Actors #Well Known #Wells

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.
-- Sarah Jessica Parker

#Ideas #Actors #Well Known

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.
-- Stanley Walker

#Art #Entertainment #Well Known

It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.
-- Stephen Colbert

#Reality #Facts #Well Known

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
-- Terry Gilliam

#Well Known #Wells #Animator

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.
-- V. S. Pritchett

#Talking #Two #Well Known

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.
-- Viktor E. Frankl

#Rise Above #Well Known #Life Altering

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
-- Walt Kelly

#Majority #Well Known #Equal

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
-- William Cowper

#Loss #Light #Well Known

Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.
-- Catherine Camus

#War #Generations #Well Known

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.
-- Frank Fairfield

#Real #Well Known #Music Is

I think the Democratic electorate is similarly very energized. In both cycles we have new folks coming into the system who had previously been outside of the system, who may not even be Democrats. In both cycles we have a very well-known candidate who understands the process and a candidate who had to learn the rules.
-- Leah D. Daughtry

#Thinking #May #Well Known

The concept of a midlife crisis is a well known one perpetuated by books and films. And recently the idea of a quarter-life crisis, between 20 and 30, has also gained a fair amount of media coverage. But there's a surprising lack of robust research on these events, and almost none on later life crisis.
-- Oliver Robinson

#Book #Film #Well Known

If you're willing to give convicts time served and let them walk, why do you want to give them a criminal record? I mean, either they should be in jail, or be free. But it's all because of some internal bureaucratic stat about getting a felony conviction for the prosecutor. Everyone's got their own little game to play, but that prosecutorial part of it is not well known.
-- Peter Moskos

#Mean #Giving #Well Known

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."
-- Roger Ross Williams

#Book #Saws #Well Known

It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.
-- Rokia Traore

#Important #Well Known #Great Experiences

What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.
-- Sam de Jong

#Exotic #Well Known #Wells

As is well known, [Carrie Fisher] suffered - and was open about it. Her transparency was courageous, which is why people loved her.
-- Tony Taccone

#People #Courageous #Well Known

Bei Dao became the most well-known name for me because of certain criticism of my work. Bei Dao was the name under which my work was criticized. So I became more well-known under Bei Dao than under the other names.
-- Bei Dao

#Names #Criticism #Well Known

A celebrity is someone famous for being well known
-- Morris Fishbein

#Well Known #Wells #Known

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.
-- Rebecca Miller

#Desire #Actresses #Well Known