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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Fritz Kreisler

In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.

Freddie Stroma

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Fred Thompson

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

Fay Weldon

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

G.K. Chesterton

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

Charles Dickens

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

Clifford Geertz

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

Criss Jami

I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

Calvin Klein

Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.

Chris Kilham

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

Christopher Koch

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

Charles Tennyson Turner

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

Harry S. Truman

Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Josh Billings

The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination." J.L. Bond

J.L. Bond

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

Dav Pilkey

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

Emma Donoghue

Counterterrorism analysts have known for years that al Qaeda prepares for attacks with elaborate 'targeting packages' of photographs and notes.

Barton Gellman

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Ben Hecht

The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.

Bill Nelson