#known

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#i #i do #obvious #something #unknown

Design is an unknown. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

#unknown

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#defect #either #genius #given #gods

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace. ↗

— Bjork

#confront #deal #embrace #every #handle

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#his #known #person #who

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#arose #between #both #both sides #bridge

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#could #efforts #i #if i could #known

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment

Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted palette -a pale blue bedroom, washed out sunny sky, dull green yellow brown of the fields. Here, I know ever twist of every road, every blade of grass, every face in this town, and I am suffocating. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#beautiful #dull #face #grass #life

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#human mind #known #mind #original #outlet