Not Largely Known Quotes

#1. A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star.

Seth Shostak

#3. I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

Piers Anthony

#4. Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

Barry Schwartz

#5. My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.

Ada Yonath

#6. By now, sympathy for the plight of the polar bears had largely disappeared from public discourse. Instead of beautiful mammals deserving of out preservation efforts, they came to be known as a marauding horde of beasts surfing a climatic anomaly that was laying waste to Canada.

Ryan Boudinot

#7. It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

Ben Casnocha

#8. Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.

Lisa Carey

#9. Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things ... after the weather.

Billy Connolly

#11. I believe in permanent revolution.

Germaine Greer

#12. I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

Janusz Korczak

#13. Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

Rob Conway

#14. Post-Christian societies are cultures where the Christian worldview was once the dominant worldview. Many European cities were once known for having a thriving Christian influence and a population that largely subscribed to the central tenets of Christian orthodoxy. Take

Stephen T. Um

#15. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

Idries Shah

#16. In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

Nic Pizzolatto

#17. You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.

Jodi Picoult

#18. Increasing church membership is not the ultimate goal of Christians

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Common misconception that; that fun is relaxing. If it is, you're not doing it right.

Iain M. Banks