Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Hill

I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.

Garrison Keillor

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

Francois Fenelon

Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.

Gayle King

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

Edward Thorndike

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

Edward Teller

Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.

Edward de Bono

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Henry Van Dyke

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Jose Saramago

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jorge Luis Borges

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Jordan Knight

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

Joni Eareckson Tada

I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.

Joni Mitchell

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

Kevin Brockmeier

Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.

Kelley Armstrong

I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!

Kevyn Aucoin

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Jonathan Safran Foer

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.

Napoleon Hill

All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

Napoleon Hill

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

Ludwig Feuerbach

"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.

Lori Greiner

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

M. Night Shyamalan

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Malcolm Forbes

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

Malcolm Forbes

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

Gavrilo Princip

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed

Gabrielle Zevin

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.

Frank Luntz

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

Og Mandino

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

Norman Mailer

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Norman Maclean

Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death," and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one.