Better Known Quotes

#1. HIM: I should have known better than to fall for a scientist. Your idea of a Valentine's heart probably has an aorta. HER: Is it a crime to be biologically relevant? She

Jodi Picoult

#2. The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

Lewis Thomas

#3. If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known me much better, cause the past is something that never got in my way.

Billy Joel

#4. The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

Florence Nightingale

#5. Jev was certain the words "should've known better" would go somewhere on her tombstone, but at the moment her focus shifted to the dozens of angry pixies honed in on her.

Katherine McIntyre

#6. I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

David McCullough

#8. Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

Clarence Benjamin Jones

#9. Time to wake up." Rick muted the TV when a commercial came on. He slipped on his reading glasses and asked, "What is the groundnut better known as?" Lydia carefully rolled onto her back so the cat wouldn't be disturbed. "The peanut.

Karin Slaughter

#10. They say if you get her, you could understand her better and she known to be a cheater, but that's only if you let her.

Drake

#11. Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

Charles Gounod

#12. All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

John F. Kennedy

#13. This version of the facts having been restored, it only remains to say it is no better than the other and no less incompatible with the kind of creature I might just conceivably have been if they had known how to take me. So let us consider now what really occurred.

Samuel Beckett

#14. I should have known you were no better than the rest of them. You are only a man, you do not have the ability to control yourself, but she," Lady Catherine nodded sagely, "she knew exactly what she was doing. Fluffing her feathers and shaking her tail for you! It was disgraceful!

Elizabeth Adams

#15. I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.

Al Yankovic

#16. Better to be known for something than be forgotten for nothing.

John Hegarty

#17. My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

Walter Becker

#18. If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

Criss Jami

#19. Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#20. An ancient human religious figure known as John the Baptist had once claimed, "The truth shall make you free," but if Aelyx remembered correctly, John's honesty had been rewarded with a gruesome decapitation. Aelyx hoped for better results.

Melissa Landers

#21. It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

Scott Berkun

#22. Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.

Kevin Kelly

#23. I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

Gordon Parks

#24. You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
The final step you must take alone.
No wisdom is better than this when known:
That every hard thing is done alone.

Hermann Hesse

#25. Better to walk through life simply and without masks, than to lose ourselves in the pursuit of identities that are purely cosmetic and commercial. Then, at least, we will be known for what we are rather than for what we are not.

Joan D. Chittister

#26. An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

Arthur Smith

#27. Photographer Man Ray, for example, is a compelling suspect given that the posing of Ms. Short's body appeared to mimic the Minotaur, one of his better-known photographs.

David McGowan

#28. It's funny how this total stranger could relate to me better than anyone else I'd ever met. It was as if I'd known her my entire life.

Fisher Amelie

#29. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

Denis Johnson

#30. I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply.

Margaret Atwood

#31. For the first time in a long time a bit of something I was unfamiliar with crept up inside me.
If I hadn't known better, I'd have thought it was hope.

T.M. Frazier

#32. Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

Nathan Myhrvold

#33. China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

Ziyi Zhang

#34. I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

Kathy Baker

#35. I have just spent the better part of a week sorting out the miasma of lunatic alibis known as your correspondence in an effort to adjust matters, that our game may be finished simply once and for all.

Woody Allen

#36. Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#37. I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.

John C. Maxwell

#38. It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.

Sam Mendes

#39. In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

Winston Churchill

#40. I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

Vincent Tan

#41. If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.

Megan Hart

#42. In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!

Mona Singh

#43. If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.

Jimmy Durante

#44. I did it - I who should have known better. I persuaded Reginald to go to the McKillops' garden-party against his will.
We all make mistakes occasionally.

Saki

#45. . . . But if he is truly

Odysseus, home at last, make no mistake:

we two will know each other, even better -

we two have secret signs,

known to us both but hidden from the world.

Homer

#46. If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.

Gil Scott-Heron

#47. If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better.

Yangsze Choo

#48. Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.

Simon Mainwaring

#49. have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place. In Louis Chen's case, he sometimes says my name as if it were a lesser-known word for bacon.

Helen Oyeyemi

#50. From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Oscar Wilde

#51. This ring means that I choose to spend the rest of my life with you. I promise to love you in the nurturing and selfless way that you love me. I've changed so much since I've known you. Your love has given me the strength to be softer. You've taught me kindness and compassion. You make me better.

Portia De Rossi

#52. I've never known my real father, and I've never looked for a father figure in a boyfriend, but I suppose I have looked for real father figures in my life - and I've acquired more than one. I certainly couldn't ask for better ones. I love them enormously - and they know that.

Naomi Campbell

#53. The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

P. J. O'Rourke

#54. Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.

Blaise Pascal

#55. I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Stanley Fish

#56. Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about.

Lisa Ling

#57. Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Mark Spitz

#58. Would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it to turn away from the holy commandment they had received.

Anonymous

#59. No doubt Western modernity has its limitations and discontents. Still, it is far better than the known alternatives - not only, or even primarily, because of its advanced technology but because of its fundamental commitment to freedom, reason, and human dignity.

Rodney Stark

#60. Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way." Then

Alice Munro

#61. Our lives would have been a hell-of-a-lot better, had we known how to survive with what we have in excess.

Anu Lal

#62. 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.

Will McDonough

#63. The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.

Gary Sinise

#64. If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!

Mickey Mantle

#65. 'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.

Spark Matsunaga

#66. Glory be!' said the Cabby. 'I'd ha' been a better man all my life if I'd known there were things like this.

C.S. Lewis

#67. You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.

Ayn Rand

#68. Since he'd been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he'd never known the need to suppress his feelings, so he pouted completely and might even have stamped his foot again, except he sensed that a kind of lumpish stillness might better illustrate the sulk he'd fallen into.

Donald E. Westlake

#69. I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

Eric Davis

#70. I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

Morley Callaghan

#71. Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to make it look so good. Her skin was perfect, no blemishes. Perfect nose, beautiful straight teeth, and gleaming, shiny black hair that was always in place, always.

Bunny Yeager

#72. To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Ali Smith

#73. They rarely look at Baba
the teenagers
and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.

Khaled Hosseini

#74. It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

Saint Augustine

#75. Then, as now, there were always girls who were overlooked and ignored by gentlemen who really should have known better.

Lisa Kleypas

#76. Going in the known is like knowing the rules, once you know it... better you will do it.

Deyth Banger

#77. Though I should have known better, I had to ask. "What is furniture disease?"
She looked at me like I had the IQ of a grape. "It's when your chest falls into your drawers. Get ready for it, honey, because with that rack of yours, you'll be using them as knee pads before you know it.

Annelise Ryan

#78. Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

Jimmy Carter

#79. Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#80. There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#81. I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom ... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

Ralph Abernathy

#82. She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

Taylor Swift

#83. I should have known better than to lie to the government. People always said Uncle Sam would spend a thousand dollars to get you if you stole a three-cent stamp from him. He was more revengeful than God. I

Maya Angelou

#84. I should have known better. Arguing with Drew is like dealing with a terrorist. He has no boundaries; nothing's off limits. There are no depths he won't sink to to win. Then he looks thoughtful.

Emma Chase

#85. It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

Marilyn Monroe

#86. I should have known better than to assume you'd been corrupted by the rest of them. Perhaps you'll be able to corrupt them instead.

Brandon Sanderson

#87. My philosophy and my belief was that there was a long way for us to go in improving what we had ever known before, that this country of ours was a country of constant improvement. And so I thought that, well, what my whole approach was based on the promise of a better America.

Ronald Reagan

#88. He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Cormac McCarthy

#89. Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.

Deirdre O'Kane

#90. Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

Socrates

#91. In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an associate director

John Gofman

#92. I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

Drake

#93. I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

Abraham Lincoln

#94. If you have not known love, then the only reason not to die is that life will get better or god exists. If you don't believe in either, perhaps it is time for you to go.

Amit Agarwal

#95. Better by far never to have known the pleasure than to have the pain that followed.

Larry McMurtry

#96. Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Haile Selassie

#97. He had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way.

Eleanor Catton

#98. Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected.

Squire Rushnell

#99. Most known motives are so suspect these days that I doubt whether the hidden ones are any better. All the same,

J.G. Ballard

#100. Sometimes kindness doesn't beget anything but misery. My mother didn't have to learn that until she was in her thirties; I've known it nearly all my life. I'm not sure which of us is better off.

Jessica Warman