Top 100 I Already Knew Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.
Avril Lavigne
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I already knew the answer to that. I was just too afraid to admit it.
K. Langston
#9. 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
#10. I already knew, too, that these questions would not change the facts. But they would inevitably change the way we sought justice.
Louise Erdrich
#11. I already knew that, of course. But there's a difference between knowing it and really experiencing it. All
Andy Weir
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.
Indu Muralidharan
#16. He was looking for the most hurtful way to tell the truth, but of course I already knew the truth.
John Green
#17. Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head.
Dave Morris
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Besides, I already knew you didn't have any moral qualms about breaking and entering.
Richelle Mead
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Who?" he asked, confused, confirming what I already knew. "His name's Agent Mabie.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#36. 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
#37. I needed only to allow myself to know what I already knew.
Aspen Matis
#38. I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
Eric Thomas
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.
Ingrid Betancourt
#43. 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
#44. I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.
Robert J. Crane
#45. You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.
Samantha Stosur
#46. All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.
V.C. Andrews
#47. For what need would I have to say, 'I believe,' if I already knew?
(from The Church is One)
Aleksey Khomiakov
#48. A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to
Jason Najum
#49. Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.
Jenny Lawson
#50. That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, I'm afraid I already knew that about you.
Marissa Meyer
#51. I felt like I already knew how to race by the time I was four. I was always at the race track with my dad. I watched him race thousands of laps in a sprint car standing on top of a trailer watching him, getting down and cleaning the mud off his car. That's just what I grew up doing.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
#52. You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.
Megan McCafferty
#53. Today at work, I couldn't help but to notice how sexy Tyrone was. I already knew he was married, because I saw the ring on his finger and when we walked past his office, I saw a picture of him and his wife in a frame. The way his dreads were
Diamond Johnson
#54. It was very pleasurable and easy and it was nice to work with friends ... people I already knew, people I didn't know but I now count as friends. There is a lot of hard work that goes into the movie but I can't claim to have been any part of that.
Matt Lucas
#55. I thought about the guy in the truck, the focus in his expression, and I felt like I already knew enough of the story to tell it to somebody else maybe better than either of its major players could.
John Darnielle
#56. As usual when I drank too much I started talking about things I should'nt ... That night Kate told me I had no brains and she was officially done with me. OK, fair enough. I already knew that I was an idiot, stepping for the third time in the same shit with the same left foot.
Joanna Mazurkiewicz
#57. I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.
Anna White
#58. I already knew, from church, that this place was raped and pillaged by Spaniards and the Pilgrims. "Don't sit here and try to tell me that they broke bread together, brother."
Michelle Rodriguez
#59. I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amazing strength. More than anything else, I felt like I already knew her, like she was an old friend, because I'd been watching her so intently, and she was exactly what I had figured she would be.
Michelle Yeoh
#60. Victor kept telling me to breathe, and I told him that I already knew how to breathe and why do people even say that because it's not like people just forget to breathe. He
Jenny Lawson
#61. When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
Amy Tan
#62. When I was with him, I felt like I already knew him
Gayle Forman
#63. Richard [Ayoade] likes working with people that he knows. So, I already knew all of the crew and practically everyone and we all felt comfortable. It's nice to be able to go into somewhere where there's no pressure, and where people are supportive and believe in you.
Yasmin Paige
#64. By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense.
Jamaica Kincaid
#65. I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.
Gerard De Nerval
#66. Why trade a chance at real happiness for a misery I already knew?
A.S. King
#67. The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.
Neal Shusterman
#68. Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film
Brian Henson
#69. Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals.
Devin Ratray
#70. I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.
Leo Tolstoy
#71. It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.
Ashley Newell
#72. I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.
Max Muller
#73. For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.
Anthony Marra
#74. Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.
Augusten Burroughs
#76. She always brought something when she came on Fridays, and this time it had been a book. A Wizard of Earthsea, written by someone called Ursula K. Le Guin, and already after the first few pages I knew that this was an absolutely fantastic book.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#77. At that moment, I knew she was the girl for me. Of course, we'd already been going out for a few weeks, so I wasn't, like, shocked or anything. But still, it's never not nice to to keep realizing.
Rob Sheffield
#78. I'd kind of already been expecting the worst, to be in this alone. Now I knew. Twice he'd disappointed me; this couldn't be a surprise. Nothing had changed, not really.
Kylie Scott
#79. 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
#80. I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen.
Elie Wiesel
#81. In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying.
Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get to her.
And then ... Well, I'd already died once. I couldn't live through it again.
Lauren Oliver
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. I know now-I think I probably already knew then- that all lives are exceptional.
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#85. In fifth grade, I did 'Oklahoma!,' but I didn't get a leading role. I knew the whole play and could sing it already, but they were like, 'The sixth-grader has to get the lead.' I was really discouraged.
Ansel Elgort
#86. You can leave the table, dear,' she said. I suspect, thinking back on it, that she already knew exactly what
Kate Mildenhall
#87. Well, you already knew that life isn't fair, right?" he said. "I guess death isn't either.
Suzanne Harper
#88. 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
#89. My heart was skipping beats already. I was in way too deep. I didn't exactly stop myself from falling, but he did a whole lot of pulling, whether he knew it or not.
Kiera Cass
#90. Lust was a story I knew. There were many women I took to bed for the night. I yearned for them in the moment, but in the morning, any lover Id had was already claimed by the past, even if she was still calling my name.
Alice Hoffman
#91. 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
#92. I knew him, you know, your beloved Novron. Ah, but yes, you already discovered that little fact. Here's something the books won't tell you. He was an ass.
Michael J. Sullivan
#93. That you think I have taught you much already only shows how little you knew to begin. You
Robert Jordan
#95. You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.
George Orwell
#96. It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
Ally Carter
#97. I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.
Abbas Kiarostami
#98. I knew her type. She'd had some bad dating experiences and now she focused more on what she didn't want than what she did want. Avoidance dating. She was already angry with me for the thoughtless things I would potentially do if we dated. When
Will McIntosh
#99. He moved so suddenly that before I knew it, he had already picked me up and thrown me to the bed.
"What the heck? What do you think you're doing?"
"Let's go to sleep."
Was that the code for 'let's have sex'?
Alyloony
#100. I felt nothing like a horse, whose instincts I knew were to run and run. I had mostly in life tried to stand still like a glob of coral so as not to be spotted by sharks. But now I had crawled out onto land and was somehow already a horse.
Lorrie Moore
