Top 100 I Always Knew Quotes
#2. I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.
J. Cole
#3. I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.
Marie Lu
#4. I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people's stories. I wanted to convey something from other cultures to the U.S. - and vice versa.
Clarissa Ward
#5. I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.
Spoken Reasons
#6. I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.
Signe Baumane
#7. I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key.
Michael Keaton
#8. I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.
Keith Stanfield
#9. As for his hobby, drawing, he was better at that than most artists alive today and I always knew he was really a great young artist pretending to be withdrawn so people would leave him alone, also so people wouldn't ask him to get a job.
Jack Kerouac
#10. I love you. No doubts. I can smile now because It was so true: I never had any doubts; I always knew he was it for me, I knew he was all I'd ever want
Amy Molloy
#11. I always knew what I was worth, what I could do, what I could not do. I think that I have a genetic problem with lying. I just can't lie. I get in trouble with my husband because of that. He wishes that I wasn't so sincere, but I am.
Cristina Saralegui
#13. I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways ...
Katherine Anne Porter
#14. I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
John Lydon
#15. I Always Knew I Carry The Key ... To The Universal Human Race,
Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
December 6, 1972
Netherlands, Tilburg
May 2053
Completely in Harmony
In Silence and By Silence
Amen
God
Petra Hermans
#16. The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me ... I always knew that some day I should defy it.
John Christie
#17. Course, I always knew you were a royal. Just didn't know it went past the pain-in-the-ass part.
J.R. Ward
#18. What I always knew about my parents was that they were in love, and this love had a fizz. It was exciting to be their child, to be around them. There was a dynamism between them, a charge.
Monique Roffey
#19. Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#20. When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.
Darius Rucker
#21. I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.
Richard Avedon
#22. I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.
Marc Benioff
#23. I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.
Jessica Raine
#24. I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
B. D. Wong
#25. Washington replied, "I always knew Colonel Hamilton to be a man of superior talents, but never supposed that he had any knowledge of finance." "He knows everything, sir," Morris replied. "To a mind like his nothing comes amiss.
Ron Chernow
#26. I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin [Luther King, Jr.] and it took a lot of praying to discover this, that this was probably what God had called me to do, to marry him.
Coretta Scott King
#27. Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy.
Richelle Mead
#28. I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
Lynn Shelton
#29. Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
Harlan Coben
#30. I always knew that I had to direct. That was something I'd wanted to do. Finally, I was just looking at the situation and I said, "I wanna document hip-hop, as an art form, seeing how a lot of people don't take it seriously."
Ice-T
#31. You can't help but be in a good mood around Blake Shelton. I felt like I always knew him even though I was just meeting him; it was like he had been a part of my life forever.
Cole Vosbury
#32. I always knew my death would be a possible consequence of the work I do. But for me it was a price I was willing to pay because this is what I believed in.
Lynsey Addario
#33. Oftentimes when I'm deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I've come to feel that more and more. The more movies I've done and the older I've - the more experience I have, I always knew it was a director's medium, and I always said that.
Matt Damon
#34. I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.
Suzanne Somers
#35. I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
J. Michael Straczynski
#36. I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.
Ashley Jensen
#37. My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.
Gunther Schuller
#38. I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Jack Prelutsky
#39. I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.
Susanna Thompson
#41. When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.
Noomi Rapace
#42. A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part that didn't look at the evidence that was right before my eyes, and even though I know this, it does not stop me from defending the fairy tale.
Carrie Jones
#43. I always knew I wanted to be somebody. I think that's where it begins. People decide, "I want to be somebody. I want to make a contribution. I want to leave my mark here." Then different factors contribute to how you will do that.
Faith Ringgold
#44. He tethered me to him, my magnetic north, while my mind went here or there. I always knew. Somehow I always knew.
T.J. Klune
#45. You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot," I blurted out. "But I always knew you would be." my eyes widened as I realize what just streamed out of my mouth, and his grin to turn into a smile. "Oh my God, I did not just say ... any of that out loud."
"you did"
"Ugh.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#46. I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.
Kevin Durant
#47. My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.
Erin O'Connor
#48. I just never doubted myself. I always knew I was going to do something.
DJ Ashba
#50. They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.
Kid Rock
#51. He had no idea of the impression he was making and cared less...He was finally an Angel, as I always knew he would become; but like any Angel he still had rages and furies...
Jack Kerouac
#52. Many believe creativity is mystery, and I always knew that my body is the key.
Lara Biyuts
#53. I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.
Hans Keilson
#54. I always knew I would fall in love with you," he said softly, "but you were never supposed to love me back.
Priscilla Glenn
#55. I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.
Rebecca St. James
#56. My parents ... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.
David A.R. White
#57. I never felt sidelined, I was supported by my friends, my family and my team. I always knew I could do it. I had confidence in myself.
Lindsey Vonn
#59. I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.
Louise Meriwether
#60. I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.
Nelson Mandela
#61. I always knew that I wanted to do voiceovers as part of my career. I just kind of didn't expect it to take off the way it did. I couldn't be happier. I love the chance to play so many different characters every day.
Kari Wahlgren
#62. I always knew you were tough, but you're about to try to take on the wolves, the Arrows, the Forgotten, and God knows who else, all at once. Forget brass balls. Those things are goddamn titanium!
Nalini Singh
#63. I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.
Oprah Winfrey
#64. I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.
Michael Dell
#65. I give up," Baz whined. "I'm going to go drown myself in the moat. Tell my mother I always knew she loved me best.
Rainbow Rowell
#66. I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
James Salter
#67. For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
Fran Lebowitz
#68. 'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.
Victoria Aveyard
#69. Well, it wasn't no revelation to me cause I always knew she was a freak.
Truman Capote
#70. I always knew I was going to leave the Midwest but didn't really know how the opportunity would present itself. When it happened, I was like, "Yes, okay right now, I'm coming. Goodbye!"
Ashley Hinshaw
#71. A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
Vincent Piazza
#72. In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.
Portia Doubleday
#73. I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.
Susan Boyle
#74. I always knew I was a dust. But I never knew I was also a universe.
Akiane Kramarik
#75. I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.
Pico Iyer
#76. You can't make a person, a human being with a first kiss and a sense of humor and a favorite sandwich, and then expect her to dissolve back into scribbled notes and whiskeyed coffee when she no longer suits your purposes. I think I always knew she would come back to find me, someday.
Tana French
#77. I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold.
Frank Miller
#78. I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
Brian Selznick
#79. I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.
Michael Schenker
#80. I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
Earl Campbell
#81. You know, I always knew I was a piece of shit
a real fucking asshole. But you know what else? You were always there to convince me I was right.
Elizabeth Finn
#82. It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
I always knew this altogether thunder
Was lost in our little lives
R.E.M Sweetness Follows
#83. I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.
Maynard James Keenan
#84. It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to realize something I always knew was simmering underneath.
Kate Zambreno
#85. I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.
Lisa Leslie
#86. I always knew what I was waiting for,
Petra Hermans
Amen
Petra Hermans
#87. I think I always knew I was going to somehow be on a stage. I was quite an extrovert, as a child. And I did a lot of music, when I was younger, so I thought I was going to go into music, but I fell into acting, in a really weird way.
Eve Hewson
#88. My two great loves. I think I always knew I would be Belly Fisher one day. I just didn't know it was going to happen like this.
Jenny Han
#89. I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.
Louis C.K.
#90. I always knew I was going to be a public figure. There was no doubt.
Shakira
#91. I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
Rachel Nichols
#92. When I first saw you, you were like ... ' He shakes his head, tugs gently on my hair. 'A rainbow. I always knew you came with a storm.
Emma Trevayne
#93. I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
Aaron Patzer
#94. I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.
Josh Ryan Evans
#95. I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
Mary Cheney
#96. I always knew I wanted to be a doctor, but I also knew that being a doctor meant more than treating just the patient in front of you.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
#97. I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from ... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
Gaby Hoffmann
#98. You're perfect for me, baby. I always knew that, never doubted it.
Penelope Ward
#99. My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
Philip Glenister
#100. Nobody in the world could have told me I wasn't gonna be a rapper. So, yeah, I always knew I was gonna be one.
Lil' Wayne
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