Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Luke Wilson

I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end.

Lucille Clifton

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

Lorne Michaels

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Margaret Sanger

Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.

Martin Filler

The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative.

Nicole Richie

I woke up today knowing everything about everything.

Nicholas Sparks

In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

Nicholas Sparks

What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

Nicholas Sparks

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

John Green

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

John Green

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

John Green

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

Patton Oswalt

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

Pat Robertson

The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will.

Paul Newman

I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

Paul Feig

That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.

Paul Feig

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

Marya Mannes

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

Mary Wortley Montagu

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

Martha Graham

How many leaps did Nijinksy take before he made the one that startled the world? He took thousands and thousands and it is that legend that gives us the courage, the energy, and arrogance to go back into the studio knowing that while there is so little time to be born to the instant, you will work again among the many that you may once more be born as one. That is a dancer's world.

Oswald Chambers

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

Oswald Chambers

We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.

Mark Twain

Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

Marianne Williamson

The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

Marianne Williamson

People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.

Chris Pronger

I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.

Chris Hadfield

In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

Harry Frankfurt

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

Francesca Lia Block

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

Neale Donald Walsch

A Soul Knowing: You are the sum total of the Body, Mind, and Soul, and each of these aspects of you has a purpose and a function, but only one has an agenda: the Soul.

Neale Donald Walsch

You are free to announce and declare Who You Are in every moment of Now. Indeed, you are doing so, without even knowing it. You are not free, however, to declare who someone else is, or who they must be.

Neale Donald Walsch

You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine the new understanding, and , it it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.