Knows Quotes

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.