Top 100 Already Knew Quotes
#1. Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.
Mark Forsyth
#2. Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.
Mark Cuban
#3. We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#4. I remember the first article I ever wrote, and I saw my name in the paper, and I already knew I was undocumented, and I was thinking: 'How can they now say I don't exist?'
Jose Antonio Vargas
#5. I didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood and crucifixes and history books.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#8. I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
Richard Dreyfuss
#9. Milton stood among his staff, shaking hands, memorising names. He already knew them in a way - he understood this breed backward and had foreseeen how his speech would be received. Journalists were as touchy as Cabernet performers and as stubborn as factory machinists. He couldn't help smiling.
Tom Rachman
#10. I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.
Sonia Sotomayor
#11. We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.
Jaron Lanier
#12. Some presentation authors justify this by saying, "The photographer already knew it was going to be an uncredited effort and it really isn't that hard to take a good photograph.
Neal Ford
#13. You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.
Tim Lincecum
#14. They already knew that they would be telling people about the morning for a long time to come, maybe for the rest of their lives, and the taxi ride was the first attempt at a first draft of a story that would have to satisfy parents, siblings, children, and grandchildren.
Nick Hornby
#15. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.
Clive Barker
#16. School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.
Avril Lavigne
#17. Already when I was very young, I was a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew.
Pedro Almodovar
#18. I know now-I think I probably already knew then- that all lives are exceptional.
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#19. You can leave the table, dear,' she said. I suspect, thinking back on it, that she already knew exactly what
Kate Mildenhall
#20. Goldwater hardly ever mentioned a statistic. He hardly ever used it EXAMPLE. He presumed you already knew what he meant. Reagan SHOWED you.
Rick Perlstein
#21. Well, you already knew that life isn't fair, right?" he said. "I guess death isn't either.
Suzanne Harper
#22. She was fifteen and had access to the Internet; she already knew that the world is a cruel place if you're a girl. Her parents couldn't imagine that this could happen, but Maya simply hadn't expected it to happen to her.
Fredrik Backman
#23. I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.
John Waters
#24. Emma laughed darkly. "It's a completely mad idea, I know. But my brain is a hope-making engine."
"I'm so glad," I said. "Mine is a worst-case-scenario generator."
"We need each other, then."
"Yes. But we already knew that, I think.
Ransom Riggs
#25. I am happiest when I clear my mind and allow the world around me to reteach me what I thought I already knew.
Vironika Tugaleva
#26. He already knew that life was largely illusion, that though wonderful things could happen, nevertheless as many disappointments came in compensation: and he knew, too, that life could offer a quality even worse - the probability that nothing would happen at all.
William Sansom
#27. Cameron's mind registered what the rest of him already knew. He was insane about this woman, and he'd do anything to be with her, anything to protect her. She'd become his world. How it had happened, he didn't know, but it had.
Lisa Carlisle
#28. Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
Marvin Minsky
#29. When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#30. Jonte said nothing because he already knew what was up from the beginning which is why he warned her, but she was stubborn and hard-headed and didn't listen. Jonte
Nako
#31. she already knew this would be one of her most revisited memories, one she'd want to examine from all angles and one whose afterglow she'd want to enjoy for a long time to come. They
M.A. Larson
#32. He had plans all right, he thought as Sarah trotted off. To eat crow.He wasn't sure what it tasted like, but he already knew he wasn't going to enjoy it.
He walked around to the office, knocked. He supposed if he'd been wearing a hat,he'd have held it in his hands.
Nora Roberts
#33. God already knew the ones who would be saved, even before their birth
Sunday Adelaja
#34. I already knew the answer to that. I was just too afraid to admit it.
K. Langston
#36. Imagination just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew. - Juliette, Pg. 139
Hugh Howey
#37. I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.
Stephanie Klein
#38. I already knew, too, that these questions would not change the facts. But they would inevitably change the way we sought justice.
Louise Erdrich
#39. If God knows the number of hairs on your head he already knew where you will go after you're dead
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#40. Good Omens was written by two people who at the time were not at all well known except by the people who already knew them. They weren't even certain it would sell.
Terry Pratchett
#41. I already knew that, of course. But there's a difference between knowing it and really experiencing it. All
Andy Weir
#42. Why did he care if Gansey and Ronan saw this? They already knew. They knew everything about him. What a lie unknowable was. The only person who didn't know Adam was himself.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
Peter Wright
#44. From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.
Anthony Browne
#45. She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.
Words gave concepts power.
Once they were released, there was no choice but to understand them, no matter how painful they might be.
Mike A. Lancaster
#46. What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.
Kate Klimo
#47. I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.
Indu Muralidharan
#48. It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.
Maggie Stiefvater
#49. The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.
Chris Van Hollen
#50. You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.
Maggie Stiefvater
#51. Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#52. He was looking for the most hurtful way to tell the truth, but of course I already knew the truth.
John Green
#53. Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head.
Dave Morris
#54. It only went to show what he already knew, which was that there were more dangers in life than even the sharpest training could anticipate.
Larry McMurtry
#55. Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
Peter Landin
#56. Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
Charles S. Dutton
#57. I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.
Alex Winston
#58. I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.
Norman Maclean
#59. I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.
Lea Michele
#60. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The "miraculous" was a penetration into this unknown reality.
P.D. Ouspensky
#61. Go on down to the local palm reader,
she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater.
Casey Renee Kiser
#62. Besides, I already knew you didn't have any moral qualms about breaking and entering.
Richelle Mead
#63. When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.
Logan Marshall-Green
#64. I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.
Willie Nelson
#65. At nineteen, I certainly didn't know the answer, although I already knew more about death than most of the other pimple-ridden pudding heads in my sophomore class at the University of Miami.
Jeff Lindsay
#66. I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.
Cub Swanson
#67. Well, of course. But, we already knew that. I mean ... I am kind of a big deal-Matt Carter
Natasha Larry
#68. I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
Alan Kay
#69. In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#71. "There was no public to humiliate him here. They already knew he was a lunatic. They expected it. He could burst into howls of insanity, and they would only smile those gentle smiles at him and wrestle him into the chains."
Laura Kinsale
#72. When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.
Jackie French
#73. Mars is a barren wasteland and I am completely alone here. I already knew that, of course. But there's a difference between knowing it and really experiencing it.
Andy Weir
#74. I'd say she is nothing short of a miracle, son."
"I already knew that," I said, a small smile touching my lips.
Fisher Amelie
#75. We're just not cut out for all this media circus crap.
But then, you already knew that.
James Patterson
#76. How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?
Peter Block
#77. There is much enjoy in vengeance than love, and we humans already knew that.
M.F. Moonzajer
#78. I've never felt a connection like this with anyone else ... I don't even know how to explain it. I feel like I already knew you before I met you, and the first time I saw you, the first time I talked to you, was incidental, because the connection was already there
.
M. Molly Backes
#79. Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew.
Matthew Reilly
#80. You'll get through it, she said, leaving out the part I already knew-because you're a mother now. Because mothers don't have a choice.
Jennifer Weiner
#81. At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.
But she already knew the answer to that.
Nobody was ever ready.
L.J.Smith
#82. It is like operating a new washing machine or videodisc player, all lights and buttons. You have to know how to operate it before you can understand the instruction booklet (it was written by someone who already knew).
J.-C. Spender
#83. When most boys were making fun of girls who hit puberty, I was sitting on the swings wondering if I already knew you and if not, when would I?
Marilyn Grey
#84. Who?" he asked, confused, confirming what I already knew. "His name's Agent Mabie.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#85. Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. Think much about girls. Considering my long, pale face and hound-dog eyes behind black-rimmed glasses with thick lenses, maybe I already knew that even through adulthood
Dean Koontz
#87. I needed only to allow myself to know what I already knew.
Aspen Matis
#88. She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt worked. Intellectually, he already knew that. It was his emotions that were tripping him up. The tangle of love and memory and what might have been.
Charles De Lint
#89. Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of the general disorder and unimaginative meanness of the world surrounding her.
Joe Meno
#90. I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
Eric Thomas
#91. I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.
Chris Isaak
#92. If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.
Harmony Korine
#93. Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.
Neil Simon
#94. I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.
Nile Rodgers
#95. She already knew she would never build up an adequate immunity to his dimples.
Stephanie Evanovich
#96. When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.
Jason Wu
#97. Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
Robert Henri
#98. So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming, anyway.
William Gibson
#99. I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.
Ingrid Betancourt
#100. Even though this story could end a thousand different ways, and even though chances were, it might not have a happy ending, it didn't matter. Because I already knew how I was gonna tell this story.
Kody Keplinger
