Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

John Milton

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

Norman Granz

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

Norbert Leo Butz

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

Nina Simone

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

Nina Hagen

You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.

Nina Garcia

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Mitch Albom

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Mitch Albom

Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.

Miguel de Cervantes

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

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.

Jonathan Maberry

Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

Jonathan Franzen

He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

Joyce Carol Oates

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

Joyce Carol Oates

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

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.

Laurie Halse Anderson

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

Thia Megia

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

Theophilus London

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.

Theophilus London

Some people have style without even knowing it!

Terry Pratchett

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

Terry Pratchett

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Terry Pratchett

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

Terry Pratchett

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Terry Pratchett

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

Terry Pratchett

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs.

Tennessee Williams

Guessing isn't knowing.

Stephen Fry

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

Srikumar Rao

Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

Sri Aurobindo

When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.