Knew Quotes

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell.

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.