#known

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#know #known #say #these #things

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#days #even #grosses #i #known

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#born #event #live #single #slowly

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#faced #frightens #known #man #men

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative

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

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#important #known #me #really #ross

Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#anything #depiction #films #i #known

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#charles #corner #dickens #east #end

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#experience #go #i #known #life