Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
Penn Jillette

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
Francois Rabelais

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
David R. Brower

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
Jacques Lacan

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.
Roger Bannister

People in Indiana have known me for 25 years. They've known George Bush four.
John Mellencamp

I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.
John Sherman Cooper

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Karl Jaspers

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine

We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.
Harry Shearer

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
Charles Lamb

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis

Being known for musicals is a great thing.
Zac Efron

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
Aishwarya Rai

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
Thomas Starr King

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Angela Carter

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
Angela Carter