Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Major

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

John Barth

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

Jimmy Carl Black

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

Julie Delpy

Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't always mention this part of directing, but it's also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.

Josh Hartnett

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

Josh Hartnett

I'm looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate to on all levels - someone I can bounce my stuff off. Right now, though, I'm not searching for that. I couldn't possibly handle it at this point. But I still like knowing it will be out there sometime later.

Katherine Anne Porter

We are born knowing death.

Joyce Meyer

We cannot know God apart from His Word...

Josh Smith

So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it.

Josh McDowell

Knowing that God is faithful, it really helps me to not be captivated by worry. But knowing that He will do what He has said, He will cause it to happen, whatever He has promised, and then it causes me to be less involved in worrying about a situation.

Josh Radnor

Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.

Juliette Binoche

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

Julie Mehretu

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

Joy Page

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

Joyce Brothers

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

Julianna Margulies

I don't have a lot of stomach for people who don't show up to a set knowing their lines because you're keeping 150 people waiting.

Julianne Moore

I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.

K. D. Lang

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

Joyce Meyer

We may not know what to do, but it is sufficient to know the One who knows. We all like specific direction; however, when we don't have it, knowing God is faithful and ever true to His promise, and that He has promised to be with us always, is comforting and keeps us stable until His time is right to speak to us more specifically.

Paul Tournier

God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

Paul Klee

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.

Patrick Swayze

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

John Piper

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Martin Luther

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

Mark Pagel

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Marilyn Ferguson

Spirituality is a kind of virgin wisdom, a knowing that comes prior to experience.

Namie Amuro

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

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.