Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
Hannah Kent
UnknownClearRatherMostThanAny
We recognize in a plant some unknown power, a single, form-giving force, which creates and conserves, which moves unwaveringly toward its end, which appropriates what is useful to it and rejects that which would harm it.
Joseph de Maistre
PowerEndPlantUnknownSingleHarm
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
A. R. Ammons
SmallUnknownNeedConcreteVague
The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.
Dominique Pire
ManCityWinnerCountryUnknown
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
Christopher Columbus
BelieveUnknownMightyComeWhich
I love the unknown.
Cindy Gallop
LoveUnknownI Love
If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
Bryant H. McGill
FearUnknownOurselvesThenSurely
I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.
Anton Corbijn
WorkJoyMeMovingBetterUnknown
I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.
William Shatner
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No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.
Shia LaBeouf
FlyWallKnowUnknownRoomWho
With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.
Tobias Hill
WalkingYouUnknownNovelConstantly
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.
Richard Jefferies
HeartShadowDeepUnknownHuman
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
Mark Oliphant
LifeThinkDesireKnowUnknownYour
Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.
Lela Loren
DeathInsecurityBackTrueUnknown
I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.
Justin Guarini
FamousGoUnknownWhereAnywhere
The unknown makes people uncomfortable.
Holly Hunter
PeopleUncomfortableUnknownMakes
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
George S. Patton
LearningPastUnknownOthersPrepare
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Ella Maillart
TravelYourselfYouUnknownAfraid
We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.
Craig Venter
KnowUnknownStructureWithoutOut
There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.
Alex Honnold
BestYourselfPushTryingUnknown
Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.
William Adams
GoodShipWorthLostDoneUnknown
I come from an almost unknown village near Rohtak called Madina, and that is where I started my wrestling career.
Sangram Singh
CareerVillageUnknownWrestling
I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.
Lea Seydoux
CuriousWorldLearnUnknownWay
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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