#known

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#africa #american #enter #even #fact

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#act #agent #always #because #came

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#animal #anymore #been #cross #dare

Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it. ↗

— Susan Sullivan

#before #both #chance #characters #each

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ↗

— Charles Sumner

#i #known #man #never #old

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#common-sense #did #doctrines #earliest #economy

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#arcane #concealed #obvious #step #toward

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal. ↗

— George Tenet

#definition #deliberately #deny #hidden #hope

The nature of rumor is known to all. ↗

— Tertullian

#nature #rumor

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#feel #good #honestly #how #i