Top 100 Known For Quotes
#1. If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
Ian Anderson
#2. There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.
Red Tash
#3. But the reasons against going to New Orleans
that spicy southern city known for jazz and Mardi Gras and hospitality
were the very reasons we had to go.
Howard Schultz
#4. Never crave to be known for someone you are not. Be who you are in the day and when the lights are off, remain true!
Israelmore Ayivor
#5. I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.
Mariel Hemingway
#6. I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.
Adrienne Bailon
#7. Wal-Mart, we've been known for many years - back to the days of when Sam Walton started the company - we've been known for basics. The basic need of families and people across America. Wal-Mart was known as the place for basics.
Mike Duke
#8. The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.
Hayden Panettiere
#9. I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.
Billy Magnussen
#10. I tested the brackets by hitting them with rocks. This kind of sophistication is what we interplanetary scientists are known for.
Andy Weir
#11. We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.
Margaret Beckett
#12. The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day.
John D'Agata
#13. I am kind and beautiful. I have a soul.It's better to be known for what I am not. Isn't that how the saying goes?
Rebecca Berto
#14. He also suffered from a certain amount of what he calls "reputational confusion," in which he became known for being over-the-top effervescent, and the reputation fed on itself. This was the persona that others knew, so it was the persona he felt obliged to serve up.
Susan Cain
#15. Seattle isn't known for a particular production sound, so that leaves a lot of great producers in Seattle doing kind of their own thing. And I think, for me, I was probably enough removed from hip-hop that my style was even a little bit weirder than that.
Ryan Lewis
#16. I wasn't exactly known for self-confidence, but I could taste the cake in my mind. Strong. Earthy. Fragrant. I remembered the nose-prickling aroma of cinnamon when it comes in fragile curls, and the startling power of crushed cloves.
Ruth Reichl
#17. Bottom line, if Bad Guy Sid hurt Stella or any of the Rock Chicks, Mace, not known for being a mellow guy (at all, even at the best of times), was going to hunt him down and kill him.
Kristen Ashley
#18. It is a shame for anyone
to be well-known for righteousness.
It is a great disgrace to feel
distress at the injustice of
the turning of the wheels of fate.
Omar Khayyam
#19. When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
Brandon Sanderson
#20. I don't want to be known for winning the game, I want to be remembered for how I played it." Abbie St. Claire
Abbie St. Claire
#21. We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization.
Andrew Weil
#22. We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.
David Weinberger
#23. The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.
Malin Akerman
#24. People who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.
Guy Debord
#25. A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#26. Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.
William James
#27. I'm sorry about what I said about the police," she said. "I know your friend works for them."
"You have reason," he said. "You don't know what they'll do, and when they become known for doing crazy things, you have no reason to trust them. That's their fault, not yours.
Zoe Ferraris
#28. Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#29. I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.
Lars Von Trier
#30. When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.
Meta Golding
#31. Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.
Amanda Eliasch
#32. I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
Oriana Fallaci
#33. I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I went on a tour of my own. I didn't go to New York because that was too well known for its art scene.
Claes Oldenburg
#35. Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.
Aaron Schock
#36. Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.
Brian Zahnd
#37. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.
Dat Phan
#38. At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.
Seann William Scott
#39. I was known for being talented, but I was still the fat girl. And it wasn't what people were looking for. There's a lot that you hear. There's a lot of cruelty out there. Some of it comes from the executive offices. It comes from other artists at times. It was a very difficult thing to overcome.
Kelly Price
#40. The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.
Robert Boyle
#41. I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.
Aspen Baker
#42. Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.
Kim Campbell
#43. The other is Shenzhen, the southern city most known for electronics manufacturing - it is the location of the largest Foxconn factory, where iPhones and iPads, among other devices, are assembled.
Clay Shirky
#44. It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
Steve Guttenberg
#45. British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.
Emma Thompson
#47. One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people.
Nicola Sturgeon
#48. Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.
Leonard Bernstein
#49. Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea before heading north into the wilds of Middlesex.
Ben Aaronovitch
#50. I'd like to be known for my character.
Soundarya
#51. There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
Pritam Chakraborty
#52. Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life ... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me ... I want to share.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
#53. Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance ... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
Michael Dorris
#54. THE 1973 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS were held in a flyblown banquet room way up near the Columbia School of Journalism - an area not known for its elegance. Then again, neither were journalists.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#55. She'd known for years that good things didn't last, that loved ones went away and dreams were as easy to reach as the stars in the sky.
Eliza Lloyd
#56. Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.
Peggy Fleming
#57. I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.
El-P
#58. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
Oscar Wilde
#59. I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.
L'Wren Scott
#60. A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.
Deborah Turbeville
#61. I should be known for my work and not how I promote myself and what I do.
Sunny Deol
#62. If you walk through a door with dead locks,bolts and chains don't betray or turn your back on that trust.The privilege of knowing all that goes on behind that door should be treated as an extraordinary gift.For many people will only ever see half of the real person they've known for years.
Anonymous
#63. Christians aren't generally known for their love any more than their neighbors are.
Ted Dekker
#64. Lars von Trier is not not somebody who is known for conducting a normal press conference ever!
Kirsten Dunst
#65. Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.
Assar Lindbeck
#66. To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.
Michael Dorris
#67. I'm not into clubbing. I want to be known for my work.
Ashley Tisdale
#68. Apple Tree Inn, the nightly gathering place of all Winslow residents, and in many ways the core of the town's happiness, always had a warm fire crackling on the hearth and was known for its good cider and company.
Clara Diane Thompson
#69. People pigeonhole me - I'm known for raising more money than any man alive.
Terry McAuliffe
#70. Maybe they've been drinking and think it's funny. They're from Cutchogue." Karen seemed to believe the nearby village of Cutchogue was known for its drunken liars.
Christopher Bollen
#71. Around comics, I've always been known for, oh, that's not dirty, this is dirty.
Bob Saget
#72. I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.
Peter Cushing
#73. I have known for some time that I can meet any man I want but that does not mean that I want to meet anyone. I certainly don't like being forced into situations.
Sharon Stone
#74. Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others' butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they've known for a lifetime.
James Rozoff
#75. Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
Tao Okamoto
#76. Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.
Julian Fellowes
#77. She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.
Hans Fallada
#78. I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.
Alice Walker
#79. I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it's become what I'm most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.
Paulo Costanzo
#80. Don't be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should be known for the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. 1 PETER 3:3-4
Francine Rivers
#81. I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
Daniel Ek
#82. The most ironic thing in the world is having no say when your name is determined for the first time (which is also for the last time for most), because newborns are not necessarily known for speaking their minds.
Pawan Mishra
#83. I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
Mara Wilson
#84. Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.
Angela Elwell Hunt
#85. The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do ... our production values have elevated this genre.
David A.R. White
#86. Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
Hanya Yanagihara
#88. Nothing is known for sure, even the person who was there isn't entirely sure he or she had the same response as the other in that moment. One person might have fallen head over heels, the other might have been thinking about what to have for dinner and inadvertently making eye contact.
Sophie Blackall
#89. And if she had not come back to me ... if you had not come ... if I had known for sure that both of you were dead ... Then I would still have lived ... and done what must be done. So will you.
Diana Gabaldon
#90. You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.
Rick Scott
#91. I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
David Byrne
#92. When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die.
Maggie Stiefvater
#93. New Testament Christians were most known by their love for their neighbors, but today we are most known for our segregation of the lowly.
Jefferson Bethke
#94. I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.
Jose Gonzalez
#95. Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.
David Amram
#96. A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.
Gary Snyder
#97. All that has been integrated into NVC has been known for centuries about consciousness, language, communication skills, and use of power that enable us to maintain a perspective of empathy for ourselves and others, even under trying conditions.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#98. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?
Dean Koontz
#99. Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.
William John Wills
#100. If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.
Bob Goff
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