Top 144 Well Known Quotes

My wife is much more well known than I am.

This whole celebrity racket, it’s not really my bag. I don’t really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I’m an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don’t know how to be that.

I was a student at Harvard, and that’s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

When I am training, I don’t want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings – homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

Many of them have accomplished a lot before they ever get to ‘Top Chef‘ although they’re not well known. The show just provides them with a platform. There’s just one winner and on some seasons you can get numerous chefs that are really good. Even if they don’t win, they’re all talented.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

In England I feel very well known, not only by Chelsea‘s fans, but also by other teams.

A lot of people in the Isle of Man support me and it makes it all worthwhile when people are interested in what you’re doing. I dunno if the word ‘famous’ is appropriate, but I’m quite well known on the Isle of Man.

I am particularly fond of Malaysian food but strangely its not that well known in Britain.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

I’m really familiar with what Cardboard‘s doing; it’s not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.

You’ve got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We’ll see how it all shakes out.

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.

It’s something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.

It is well known that men will apply for a job they are half qualified for, but women do not apply unless they meet every requirement. We want to see girls have equal levels of confidence and take the necessary leaps and risks.

I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view.

It’s pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

The best part about reality shows is that they make you a well known name.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people’s tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

If it wasn’t for the Internet, I wouldn’t be here. I’d probably be rapping, but I wouldn’t be well known if it wasn’t for the Internet.

I grew up the son of the village doctor, so my father was quite well known. At home in Northumberland, frankly Dad is the famous one.

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I’d become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.

I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

It’s well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen’s goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy… a girl.

President Obama was well known for his interfering in Justice Department matters.

It’s not a bad problem to have because a lot of classic acts are known for one or two songs and in their show they basically hold those songs off until the end and you sit through an hour or so of lesser known material but in our case most of the songs are well known.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

It’s a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Whenever I start an acting job and talk to my fellow actors, and I tell them I am from Nottingham, they guess I’m from the Workshop, it’s so well known.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn’t necessarily mean something is good. It just means it’s big.

It’s good to be well known. Everywhere I go it’s the same thing – autographs, pictures.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing – but we all do and call it Hope.

It is well known that in the Communist countries, and especially in my own, Albania, readers were often called upon to demonstrate their vigilance by detecting and denouncing the ‘errors‘ of authors.

I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I’m thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

Manchester United is like the American team in the Premier League, and everyone knows the weight of it back home. It is so exciting for me to wear a badge that is well known.

My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

Diet sodas contain a chemical sweetener called Aspartame, which is a potent neurotoxin and endocrine disrupter. Another key ingredient of soft drinks is phosphoric acid, which is added to give it ‘bite.’ Phosphoric acid is well known to cause tooth rot, bone loss, osteoporosis and gastro intestinal distress.

I came to Leverkusen as a very young player and didn’t have many Bundesliga games back then. I wasn’t well known.

I’m clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I’ll be writing books. I’m still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

I can remember games where the crowd was the reason we won it. It’s well known the Kings have incredible fans.

In Brazil, we think we can help by using our image, the fact that we are very well known, to help others. I think lots of footballers want to do something, but many don’t know how.

Somehow I feel South Indian actors are not that well known in the Hindi belt. Tamil and Telugu actors have an upper hand. But Kannada and Kerala are totally sidelined by Hindi filmgoers.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

I’m quite well known for wearing polo necks. I get them from John Smedley.

My skating brought me to a level of being well known in Canada, but I’ve grown up having trained in the U.S. I haven‘t lost my roots in Canada thanks to the little rpminders again when I come home: People thanking me for what I do and for representing Canada in the world stage.

It’s exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There’s obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.

It is well known that the Nobel Committees bring world opinion to a focus, and that fact still further enhances the prestige attaching to the Prizes.

‘Modesty Blaise’ is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she’s an institution – especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She’s a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of ‘Modesty Blaise’.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.

It’s well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they’re in middle school.

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful.

At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.

My name is well known, but my image is not, because the image presented to the public is very twisted and far from reality. So, not many recognize me on the street. And I don’t usually walk around in the streets, either.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

AJ Styles, he is very well established, very well known. He had a name that was very well known. I would think, outside of WWE, his might be the most outside-recognized wrestling name in the world. Samoa Joe as well. He could have debuted straight to Raw or SmackDown, absolutely.

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed – even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.

We must confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and its weapons, as well as by its own nuclear weapons, the existence of which is well known. It will bring about their own destruction.

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.

I don’t think my basic business strategy is well known by the public, probably because people think it’s too simple. My strategy has always been to try to focus in on a product or service where you can create a dollar of value for 20 cents and sell it for 40 cents.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

To all the younglings I come across in ‘Game of Thrones’ who suddenly find themselves well known, I say the theatre is your best friend – they will remember you.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

‘Marie Claire’ is one of those magazines that doesn’t feel as well known as it should be.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they’re not very well known, and they’re not read by very many people.

My dad was well known on the streets, shall we say, and he had a different lifestyle, which could spill into the home setting. Being exposed to that at a young age was difficult.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

It’s very important that we do show appreciation for those who go to work in raising awareness. You know, Tourette Syndrome is not well known. There’s not a lot of government money and research in it. But people are dying inside every day because they’re suffering with it, and I think word needs to get out.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

There are hundreds of historic and current examples of women and minorities doing groundbreaking work in technology, but so many of these stories are not well known, and in some cases, the stories have been all but lost.

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don’t get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

When you’re working in the industry, and you’re working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

It is a well known urban myth that the French don’t trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It’s not that they are tight with money – they just don’t trust anyone.

I’ve been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn’t well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

It’s well known that actors are lousy writers.

The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001 are now well known and often cited: Today, Afghans lucky enough to live in secure regions can go to school, women may work in offices, and the burqa is no longer mandatory.

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

I’m very well known in the industry and relatively well known by people who are aficionados and what not, but outside of that – no.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

It is well known that I am pro-life… but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.

Nixon‘s deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.

I am just saying people can be successful even though they might not be well known.

The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.

The dull externals of the screenwriter‘s working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

I don’t think I have an image of being an underground musician. I have an image of being an uncompromising musician, and I am well known in Norway partly because of that.

I’m happy to be the guy on the subway that people stare at and they just can’t quite place it. I don’t really like my life intruded upon too much. In a way, it’s kind of nice to not be all that well known.

It’s fairly well known that we all hate each other to some extent. ‘Top Gear‘ has worked because of a combination of camaraderie and mutual dislike. That’s actually the magic.

People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known.

I’m very well known for hiding my phone in really weird places. I can hide it in a refrigerator during a scene or under that bed. It’s pretty bad, but at the end of the day we can all laugh at it.

In the 1980s, I was quite well known for my knitwear, and a lot of inspiration came from carpets, where I found ways to use structures and colors and depth of colors.

Yeah, you’d be surprised how many well known musicians have regular jobs. And yes, I’m a machinist. That’s how I made my guitars – at a machine shop.

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it’s the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren’t threatened by me because they didn’t think I was a big deal.

Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them.

Biopics no longer have to be about national leaders and well known achievers. Look at ‘Sarbjit.’ It is about an ordinary Punjabi woman‘s extraordinary courage to prove her brother‘s innocence.

The band ‘The Tragically Hip‘. They’re super well known in Canada, not so much in the U.S. They’re a great band and when we were growing up we listened to them all the time, They’re icons in Canada.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That’s my grandma, that’s my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I’d probably tell them even if they weren’t well known.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

Hillary Clinton has her own issues with just her own arrogance as a leader; that has been well known for a long time.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well known.

As is well known, ‘McCarthyism’ was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

It’s well known I’m a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it’s something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

The U.K. is so important to me. It’s everything – it’s my home. I love America, but it’s so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.

If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don’t make any money.

I don’t see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I’m not tempted to sell out. If I’m going to become well known, I want it to be for something I’m proud of.

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, ‘We would like to publish your book.’ I said, ‘Well, I don’t have a book,’ and they said well it’s a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

The destructive impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced in 2013, is by now well known.

It is well known I prefer to play through the middle, so when I get my opportunity, I just want to show what I can do.

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

You know, when you have a father who’s pretty well known but you don’t see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.

It’s true that when I was younger and I first got interested in music, I used to read books about the Stones and the Beatles and how they listened to Muddy Waters and people like that when they were starting out, who are much less well known now than the Rolling Stones. The Stones really changed blues.

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

There are so many fighters from every corner of India that I can produce and why not put them onto a platform so that one day they become well known internationally as well.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn’t understand.

My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.

From time to time, I definitely look witheringly, which is why I’m well known.

I am a great admirer of Sen. Frist, who is a nationally known heart surgeon and well known in Nashville as a great family man who has dedicated his life to helping others and, in that regard, he has followed in his father’s footsteps.

I’m not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that’s great, it also imposes certain pressures.

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean‘s edge, are one of Sydney‘s defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.

There’s not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can’t just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don’t, you’ll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute‘s silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

I was a rebel, the worst kid you could ask for. I did the opposite of everything my parents asked me to do, and I was well known for my rebellion.

In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, ‘Do you like Anselm Kiefer?’ He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle.

A well known director wouldn’t take the chance on casting me for an American role after he discovered that I was English. Some time later, he expressed his regret that he hadn’t taken the chance with me.

I did become quite well known from ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral‘, and it helped hugely. I wasn’t as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

When you’re writing for a game – even if you’re using very well known characters like Batman and his villains who lend themselves to many different interpretations – you have to keep in mind that you’re writing for a different medium. Things are a bit more straightforward than it is for a feature film or a TV show.

Ashtanga yoga is a well known practice for keeping yourself fit and healthy. Yoga is good for my body.

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.