(1068 quotes found)
“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult”
William Butler Yeats
“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.”
Anna Freud
“Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.”
Ernest Hemingway
“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”
Jim Morrison
“They say that these are not the best of timesBut they're the only times I've ever knownAnd I believe there is a time for meditationIn cathedrals of our own.”
Billy Joel
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.'”
Charlotte Bronte
“When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.”
Calvin Trillin
“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?”
Harold Pinter
“If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but utterly fanatical outbreak known as the Crusades could not have taken place, for they were based on a”
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
“That neighborhood has never been known for racial tensions.”
Robert McCloskey