Jazz is a fighter. The word ‘jazz’ means to me, ‘I dare you. Let’s jump into the unknown!’
Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
The big unknown is, at what point is a cyberattack so significant that it warrants a physical-world response.
I don’t know exactly where my life will lead. Adventure and the unknown has always been appealing to me.
The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
We all need strategies for facing unknown repertory.
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a ‘map’ for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown.
The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.
That’s always been my interest – things of the unknown.
I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
Whenever you start a new job, it’s always a bit daunting, the unknown.
There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you’re not really risking anything. I think if you don’t risk something in art, it’s not really important.
We were unknown before, and that was an advantage. Nobody knew who we were, so we snuck up on the competition.
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
Now for me, acting is all I want to do for the rest of my life. So I am going to give 100 per cent to it. Whether I am becoming poor or rich, famous or unknown, it does not matter. This is what I am here for.
It’s been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.
Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or ‘outsideness’ without laying stress on the emotion of fear.
Sometimes you just have to let go of the old and trust that something better is going to take its place, even if it’s scary to face change and the unknown.
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it’s still an unknown entity.
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
Life is a very scary thing because it’s unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
I’m aware me getting a role out of Chicago as a complete unknown is an insane anomaly, so I knew I’d have to get out here to L.A. as soon as the door opened.
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It’s not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
Profound political shifts – events that suddenly split families and friends, cut across social classes, and dramatically rearrange alliances – do not happen every day in Europe, but neither are they unknown.
I’ve been working pretty solidly for a long time: Not that anyone would notice, you know what I mean? It’s been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible.
A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
In 1997, I was an unknown struggler; In 2018, I am a well-known beginner.
People are always afraid of the unknown – and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.
I’ve always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.
In a media instant, Sarah Palin went from an unknown moose hunter to a mass phenomenon on the precipice of becoming the vice president of the United States.
Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.
The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people’s lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
‘Dances with Wolves’ really started the movement, using subtitles for Lakota Sioux and showing Indians as interesting, complex people – not just the enemy – and giving a lot of unknown Indian actors work.
You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you’re going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you’re on the right track.
I’m the unknown everyone’s already sick of.
When you get into the public eye, one day, you’re kind of unknown, and the next day, you have people in your bushes waiting to take a picture of you.
The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery.
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I’ve been getting into recently.
Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.
Don’t let that hunger for the unknown go away. That curiosity is so important, so you should maintain that passion for what you do.
Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.
I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.
There should always be competition. You should never feel comfortable, no matter where you are at. If you are a 10-year veteran, you should not feel comfortable. For me, that kind of just drives me, that kind of unknown of what is going to happen. The unknown is kind of what drives me.
The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.
Instead of fearing the unknown – all the bad that can happen – realize that good things can surprise you as well.
I was a complete unknown when I did ‘Karate Kid.’ I’d just done a pilot for a TV show called ‘Call to Glory.’ And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would’ve been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.
Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
I don’t want to be thought of as somebody who’s spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there’s unknown things happening. I’m not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.
