Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Conway

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Thomas Ligotti

And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.

Vilfredo Pareto

Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one would come to its assistance, it would be defeated before having fought a battle. On the contrary, it appears to be asking nothing for itself, well knowing that without asking anything in advance it will obtain what it wants as a consequence of its victory.

Sugata Mitra

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Studs Terkel

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

Stone Gossard

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Sonia Johnson

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

Sonia Choquette

If you look at yourself and life through the lens of your ego, you'll feel isolated, ganged up on, alone, dfferent, and not part of the crowd. If you look through the lens of Spirit, knowing we're all one, you'll always feel safe, secure, ad loved.

Steve Jobs

It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.

Stephen Root

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

Molly Sims

Tips like that. Wearing necklaces, knowing how to layer, wearing a statement piece. Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic. I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.

Pema Chodron

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Pema Chodron

In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

Pema Chodron

By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

Peter Scott

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

Pearl Cleage

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

Rabindranath Tagore

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

Rabindranath Tagore

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Scarlett Johansson

I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.

Seth

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

L. Ron Hubbard

The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.

Leslie Caron

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

Leslie Jamison

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Leslie Jamison

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

Lady Bird Johnson

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Neil Postman

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them.

Neil Postman

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

Viktor E. Frankl

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

Vanna Bonta

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Susie Bright

Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

Suzanne Collins

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

Suzanne Collins

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.