Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Long

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

Edouard Manet

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

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.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Charles Lamb

Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.

Charles Baudelaire

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.

Charlie Munger

Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.

Charlie Munger

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

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.

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.

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.

Edna O'Brien

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...

Benjamin Franklin

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Benjamin Franklin

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

bell hooks

We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

Baltasar Gracian

Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one.

Ariel Pink

I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

Ariana Grande

The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

Ariana Grande

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.

Anthony Trollope

Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.

Diane Ackerman

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

David Allen

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

Justin Timberlake

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.