Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles M. Schulz

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

Marisa Miller

I think it's so important just to have confidence in your body. Everyone knows that confidence is sexy, and it's knowing your assets, your strengths, and just playing those up.

Nelson Cruz

There's nothing worse than seeing your teammates battle, knowing you can't help.

We're going to get him ready and knowing Big O, it won't take him much to get ready.

Bill Bailey

Contentment is knowing you're right

Bill Bailey

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Benjamin Hoff

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

Benjamin Hoff

There is more to knowing than just being correct

Bill Watterson

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.

Betty Smith

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

Chazz Palminteri

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

Charley Reese

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

Aidan Chambers

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

Bill Nye

We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are at least one of the cosmos's ways of knowing itself. That fills me with reverence and joy. Another insight I really want people to consider is this: everyone has gotten this far. Everyone you meet has made it this far. Nobody is superior to anyone else from an evolutionary standpoint.

Carlos Castaneda

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Agnes Varda

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

Harper Lee

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

Mark Twain

The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

Catherynne M. Valente

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

Calvin Trillin

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

Amanda Lindhout

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.

George Ryan

sleep well knowing I made the right decision.

(The lack of recruiting) is surprising knowing what he has accomplished.

It's really opening with two openers in not knowing what your opponent is going to do.

Jamie Dixon

I like the different looks we can give. I like our guys' minutes. They're always out there knowing what they're doing.

Pablo Neruda

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.

Craig Mello

I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.

Dusty Baker

I'm sure he'd like to end the year pitching, knowing Woody. If we can get him in there, we'll try to do that.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

Nothing he does surprises me anymore. He's just a terrific player. He's a tremendous luxury to have, knowing he can go out there any time and put up numbers like that.

Deron Williams

It's tough. It was a must-win for us, and we go out and don't really perform well. It's tough, frustrating ? especially knowing we can't make the playoffs right now.

It's tough, but it's better than not knowing where they are.