Knew Quotes

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would. My prayers are with his family.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.