Top 155 Well Known Quotes

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.
Frans de Waal
The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.
Tyler Hilton
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.
Thomas Peterffy
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.
David Rudisha
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.
James May
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.
Fred Allen
As my career has gone on, I guess I’ve become more well known. I’m playing to fuller halls in general, which is a nice feeling. When you’re doing that, you’re going to have a certain number of people who are not just the hardcore classical fanatics, and this makes me very happy.
Joshua Bell
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.
Alexander Armstrong
Britain has lots of celebrities who are well known and admired today, but we don’t seem to have any heroes.
Munira Mirza
I am just saying people can be successful even though they might not be well known.
Matt Cassel
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.
Prashant Bhushan
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
Billy Graham
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.
Brian Williams
I am particularly fond of Malaysian food but strangely its not that well known in Britain.
Rick Stein
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.
Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
Nat King Cole
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham
Donald Trump is well known for liking people he thinks are tough.
Bari Weiss
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.
Ben Mendelsohn
I think the fact that I’m so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn’t be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman – I’ll kiss a frog if you like.
Stephen Fry
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.
Satish Kaushik
It’s a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.
Kenneth Koch
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.
Grace Slick
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.
Megan Smith
Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered ou

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.
Raymond Bonner
My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.
Angela Rye
My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.
Eva Green
It’s exciting to originate Jessica Jones. There’s obviously more freedom in that versus playing a well known character.
Krysten Ritter
In England I feel very well known, not only by Chelsea’s fans, but also by other teams.
Marcos Alonso
My mother’s brother, my uncle, was an actor, quite well known in the West End. He used to come over to our house, and he and I would put on performances for my family. From that, this love of performing and acting grew.
Sonoya Mizuno
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.
Harry Connick, Jr.
YouTube is growing up, is basically my view of it. Growing up means our creators are growing up; they’re getting more well known. We’re providing programs for them to generate more revenue so they can generate even better, high-quality shows, and then also connecting them with the advertisers.
Susan Wojcicki
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.
Jamie Lee Curtis
I’ve always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I’ve always said I’m very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.
Christopher Lee
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.
Kaka
I came to Leverkusen as a very young player and didn’t have many Bundesliga games back then. I wasn’t well known.
Emre Can
Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It’s not for the acting, that’s for sure.
Bill Murray
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.
Sally Hawkins
In 2010, the excesses of the social welfare state are well known and understood to all Americans except the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, which controls Congress.
Margaret Hoover
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.
Anna Wintour
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.
Nick Offerman
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
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.
Daniel Alarcon
My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I’ve never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.
Lawrence Kudlow
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.
M. Stanton Evans
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.
Anton Corbijn
It is well known that I am pro-life… but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
Stockwell Day
Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world’s largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.
Alex Berenson
Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, ‘Well, that’s out there now…’ Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn’t very well known.
Russell Tovey
For an incumbent like a president, who’s been in the news every day, their family, they’re well known.
Mitt Romney
I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of ‘cultural lamination’ that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
Jose Saramago
I have a lot of notoriety now because of the Stormy Daniels case. I was less well known before outside of legal circles.
Michael Avenatti
Things don’t get better when you become well known or go on TV. I’m just being rejected by a better class of women.
Stephen Merchant
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
Calamity Jane