How Do You Know Quotes

#1. How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#2. How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

Henry Reed

#3. When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

Jennifer Egan

#4. Ludicrous concepts ... like the whole idea of a war on terrorism. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?

Terry Jones

#5. In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?

Jackson Pollock

#6. I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

Imogen Cunningham

#7. How do you know you have a cheap Dom?"
Brie rolled her eyes. "Just hit me with it."
"He asks you to take off your collar to walk the dog."
Brie actually laughed out loud.

Red Phoenix

#8. You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?

Kristen Stewart

#9. Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, "How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own?" We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

Fran Lebowitz

#11. Snowball?"
It's white."
Meow."
It's so girly."
This from a guy who named his poodle Princess."
his laughter died. "How do you know about Princess?"
Your sister told me.

Rachel Gibson

#12. You're the most terrible snob, Clark." "What? Me?" "You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are 'not that sort of person.'" "But I'm not." "How do you know? You've done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?" How

Jojo Moyes

#13. EllaTheRealHero : You wouldn ' t know normal if it bit you on your ridiculously good-looking face.
Cinder458 : You ' ve never seen my face. How do you know it ' s good-looking?
EllaTheRealHero : Because no ugly person could have an ego as big as yours.

Kelly Oram

#14. How do you know if you are going into judgment? If you feel any negativity toward another person whatsoever, you are going into judgment about them.

Catherine Carrigan

#15. How do you know they are Hunters?" Lucien asked.
"They had guns and knives strapped to their bodies, and I saw the mark of infinity on one of their wrists." Branding themselves was foolish, if you asked him. Like putting a neon sign around their necks that read 'Shoot here'.

Gena Showalter

#16. Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. How do you know that?"
"Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

Jonathan Maberry

#18. How do you know I didn't bring you out here to dispose of you in private?

Koushun Takami

#19. Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. What's the point of dating without games? How do you know if you're winning or losing?

Jerry Seinfeld

#21. How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

Jack Lemmon

#22. How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

Jodi Picoult

#23. Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have?

Toni Morrison

#24. How do you know it was him? Did he introduce himself?" He shakes his head. "Nah, but he overheard Marshall introducing me to someone as 'Lily's date.' I thought the look he gave me was going to set me on fire. That's why I came in here. I like you, but I'm not willing to die for you." I

Colleen Hoover

#25. One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?

John Bartholomew Gough

#26. Liadia broke the Wraith Alliance."
Black Knife stilled. "How do you know that?"
"A refugee told me."
"Who?"
"I didn't ask for a name. I didn't want you to go after anyone, if you found out."
He tilted his head a fraction. "You don't trust me?"
"Of course not. You're a vigilante.

Jodi Meadows

#27. Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

Zakk Wylde

#28. I mean, how do you know if people are good for you or not? It's not like they come with an FDA approved sticker or anything.

Michael Thomas Ford

#29. How do you know if you are a servant? By how you react when someone treats you as one.

Dawson Trotman

#30. If you are living the dream, how do you know if you are asleep or awake?

Karl Pilkington

#31. The rational scrutiny of religious faith involves asking believers only two questions: How do you know that? What makes you so sure that the claims of your faith are right and the claims of other faiths are wrong?

Jerry A. Coyne

#32. How do you know when a lead singer's knocking at your door?" he asked. "He can't find the key and doesn't know when to come in.

Kelly Oram

#33. How do you know
you're a girl?
I'm wearing a frock.
And if you take
it off?
I get cold, so I put
it back on.
If I was a boy,
I don't know what
I'd do.

Ivor Cutler

#34. How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.

John Harvey-Jones

#35. How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?"
Answer: "Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." - John Calvin (from his catechism)

John Calvin

#36. A fawn eats the equivalent of its body weight every twenty-four hours." "How do you know that?" "Read it in a book. I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more," she said with a superior sniff. "Hard

Susan Wiggs

#37. Have you ever been in love? It's a question you're asked a lot as a kid from your friends, adults, anyone. They're curious. How do you know you're in love? Do we even really know what love means? It's just a word to define a feeling.

Shey Stahl

#38. I tapped the largest of the charms, a shark's tooth capped in silver. "It's never let me down yet." "How do you know?" Jasmine was smirking in an irritating fashion. "I'm not dead," I replied. Daryus

Amy Sanderson

#39. Several do math on their fingers. Then they raise their hands as one. "Can we see it?" "No." "Not even open the first door?" "No." "Have you seen it?" "I have not." "So how do you know it's really there?" "You have to believe the story." "How much is it worth, Monsieur? Could

Anthony Doerr

#40. Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

Bruce Sterling

#41. Who can be 100 percent sure of one's choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you'll never change your mind? Growth and change are two of the great gifts we get from time. It would be shortsighted to spurn them.

Alma Katsu

#42. How do you know they're growing up? Well, the bite marks are higher.

Phyllis Diller

#43. How do you know he's dead? I realize that I may regret asking that question." "He's got a broken neck from falling off a roof and I reckon he fell off because he got a steel crossbow dart in his brain." "Ah. That sounds like dead, if you want my medical opinion.

Terry Pratchett

#44. Mr Jack Caffery', he says slowly. 'This is the truth, but don't be afraid of it. Your life will be different from this day on, but you will survive. You will continue.'
'How do you know?'
'I know because you and I? We are the same person.

Mo Hayder

#45. If a heart breaks and nobody hears it, how do you know if its really broken?

Angela Richardson

#46. How do you know if Allah has forgiven you? When someone sincerely asks for forgiveness, then there is no doubt they are forgiven. It is guaranteed. Never doubt if Allah forgave you. First of all be sincere and genuine, and if you meet that condition then there is no doubt.

Nouman Ali Khan

#47. If you define yourself by what you're running away from, then how do you know when you've arrived at where you're going to?

Julia Kent

#48. Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled.
"How do you know a match don't hurt him?"
"Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Harper Lee

#49. How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When he's not, you worry.

Rick Warren

#50. How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine did not sound as if he were joking.

Robert Jordan

#51. Don't call me Daddy unless you mean it."
"How do you know I don't mean it?"
"Because your clothes are on and your ass isn't in the air.

Marshall Thornton

#52. How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Francesco Petrarca

#53. Will paint in pleasing colors." "How do you know which colors to use?" I asked. "There are instructions for each item on your workstation.

David Baldacci

#54. How do you know she had sex?" Dallas asks.
"Every time a penis touches Britain, I receive a telepathic notification."
"Oh," Dallas says with a straight face. "Well that explains a lot.

Iris Blaire

#55. If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T. S. Eliot

#56. How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

J.D. Salinger

#57. How do you know when it's over?"
"Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.

Gunnar Ardelius

#58. How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn's gift?"
"No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdom's 'humble' gift.

Richelle Mead

#59. How do you know they're all evil and deserve to die? Who made you judge, jury and executioner?

David Estes

#60. Mary-Lynnette: "You have not read 'Pride and Prejudice'."
Ash: "Why not?"
Mary-Lynnette: "Because Jane Austen was a human."
Ash: "How do you know?"
Mary-Lynnette: "Well Jane Austen was a woman, and you're a chauvinist pig."
Ash: "Yes, well, that I can't argue.

L.J.Smith

#61. He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

Francine Pascal

#62. Prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.

Joan D. Chittister

#63. How are you going to study tonight? What are you going to do tomorrow? How do you know you're ready for your test?' It trained me to set goals.

Charles Duhigg

#64. Then, how do you know?" "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?" "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#65. The prospect of being a father made me ask myself a question. How do you know what kind of adult your child will turn out to be? And how much can you control that?

Noah Hawley

#66. Gunfire cracked around them.
"Just warning shots," he yelled.
"How do you know?"
"We're not dead.

Brynn Kelly

#67. I wrote back with a quick message:
How do you know about 24601? I refuse to believe you read the book. You saw the musical, right?
I hit send and received a response back from him almost immediately.
SparkNotes.

Richelle Mead

#68. Does anyone in this room have it?"
"No, Chris, no one here has it."
"How do you know?"
"Because the mark was dark skin. Negroes are the descendants of Cain."
I didn't have my civil-rights sensibilities yet, but I was starting to get a bad feeling about God ...

Chris Crutcher

#69. I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

DJ Khaled

#70. When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

Eric Ries

#71. See that?" said Lemon. "The car tracks turn off there."

"How do you know it's not the parks people on a golf cart thingie?"

"You don't golf, do you, Kate?"

"No, I'm too young to die of boredom.

Carsten Stroud

#72. Try asking for Nyx's help."
"Nyx would not hear me." Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. "she has not heard me for eons."
"During those eons how many times did you ask for her help?"
"Not once," he said
"Then how do you know she's not listening to you?

P.C. Cast

#73. And how do you know she's the one?" I whisper, wiping the tears spilling down my face. He brings a hand up to my cheek and caresses over it with his thumb. "I know because, when she's not with me, I feel like I lack oxygen, and even when I am with her, I feel like I can't breathe enough.

Claire Contreras

#74. How do you know you're a mom? If you never have a Kleenex in your purse when YOU need it? L. R. W. Lee

L.R.W. Lee

#75. So how do you know when the boy's perfect for you?' Dulcie asked
Betty gave her a tender look. 'You'll just know. That sounds vague, I know, but it's true.

Lesley Pearse

#76. I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder ... I didn't chisel anything in stone ... Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.

Anne Heche

#77. How do you know, that you know?

Deyth Banger

#78. How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.

Suzanne Finnamore

#79. How do you know it's love? I don't know, but it lasts forever.

Van Halen

#80. Language skill requires a bit of knowledge about how we answer the question: How do you know that Blumph is true? Plus a smidgen of Logic. B.S. Detecting gives you this because without it, Pogo's Owl may be talking about you: "You may as well quit your thinkin'. It ain't improvin' your talkin' none.

Mary Thompson

#81. How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

Francois Rabelais

#82. How do you know when you are too drunk to drive? When you swerve to miss a tree then realize it was your air-freshener.

Mike Miller

#83. Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!

Russell M. Nelson

#84. You certainly are a repository of useless information. How do you know all that?' David asked, with more amusement than admiration.
'I have a mind like a magpie's, easily distracted by interesting odds and ends,' Ramses admitted.

Elizabeth Peters

#85. How do you know? Maybe you're just out of the loop, maybe those orthogonal stealthnets are running you the way you think you're running Rakshi. You think everyone on the planet's a puppet except for Colonel Jim Moore?

Peter Watts

#86. How do you know your boss is a lesbian?
It's when she always park her bike in a dike

Stephan Attia

#87. Sometimes,' I said, 'you have to let one story end so the next one can begin.'
'How do you know when that will happen?'
'You don't,' I said. 'Which is why you should always carry on.

Lindsay Mattick

#88. How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit.

Assegid Habtewold

#89. How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

Frederick Lenz

#90. You make me calm," I said quietly, "or at least calmer. How do you know how to do that? The way you touch me, the way you look at me ... I don't know what it means.

Shay Savage

#91. Firstly, though we have to clean this blood up off the tiles before it dries. It is far easier to clean the blood up while it's still wet."
"How do you know this stuff?" Grace said completely baffled.
"Dexter," Angela said shrugging and thinking that was as good an explanation as any.

Patti Roberts

#92. You can leave a door open for your 'friends,' but the truth is anybody can come in through that open door. And how do you know these friends are who they say they are, anyway?

Katie Alender

#93. Isn't that dangerous?" I objected. "What if somebody used it on people - what if they put it on replace and turned us all into fictional characters?"
"How do you know they haven't?" asked Marc.

Polly Shulman

#94. But like, how do you know it's love?"
"When you miss the other person even if they're half a room away.

Anyta Sunday

#95. How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.

Richelle Mead

#96. People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

Kellan Lutz

#97. As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?

Shawn Casemore

#98. How do you know my name?" I asked as he lowered his weight beside me.
"We go to the same school. And why are you hiding your face? You never do that.

Shaye Evans

#99. Anyway, you're the one who doesn't want to be my boyfriend."
"How do you know?" I shrugged.
"You're not like that."
"What if you're wrong? What if I am?" "You are?" There was a moment of quiet. "Well, I am now."
"So am I,

Ava Dellaira

#100. How did you know," Summer would demand, and then decide: "It's probably a coincidence."
"It's not a coincidence," Bird would say. "It's just obvious. Your body just knows."
"But how do you know?"
"How do you know a story is a good story or not?" asked Bird. "Like that. you know like that.

Katherine Catmull