Top 100 I Didn't Know Quotes
#1. I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
Ralph Lauren
#2. I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
Charles Bukowski
#3. By all rights I should be dead. No by all wrongs I should be dead. All I wanted was the world. I didn't know it would cost so much to get it.
Carroll Devine
#4. Ix-nay!" I hissed at him. "Ix-nay!" I didn't know why I resorted to Pig Latin right then. It just seemed like the thing to do.
T.J. Klune
#5. Was that true? I didn't know. That was part of being human, I discovered. It was about knowing which lies to tell and when to tell them. To love someone is to lie to them.
Matt Haig
#6. I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.
Sarah Hughes
#7. We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around.
Lil' Romeo
#8. I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
#9. When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!
Ken Hensley
#10. I didn't know I was a sex symbol in the U.K., but if I am, then I'm flattered.
Jessie Pavelka
#11. I didn't know which direction I was going in. I just went on walking and calling out, walking and calling; and each time I called, I would stop and listen. But no answer came.
Roald Dahl
#12. I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
Queen Latifah
#13. I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
Dick Gregory
#14. I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
#15. I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.
Kevyn Aucoin
#16. With each new character, I find something new about myself that I didn't know before.
Paul Wesley
#17. I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.
Sol LeWitt
#18. Which was safer, going forward or going back? I didn't know
Amanda Sun
#19. However, I will always remember those few hours, and the days of worry leading up to those few hours, and the years and years leading up to those days when I didn't know what it was like to have my soul wrapped inside the palm of a baby
Heather B. Armstrong
#20. When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
#21. I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.
Mike Wallace
#22. I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.
Stewart Lee
#23. The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it ... I had to start in the dark.
Judith Jamison
#24. If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.
Alyssa Milano
#25. I never watched TV because I was always doing a game. I didn't have any experience to be home watching games. I didn't know how to do it. Brent Musburger and those guys could sit and watch every game and know the scores. And I was amazed and said, 'I'd like to have something like that someday.'
John Madden
#27. In the days when I didn't know people were reading and judging me, I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny; now I am afraid when I write.
Anton Chekhov
#28. When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.
Cory Wells
#29. Are you dating anyone?' 'Sally Dasilva.' 'The actress. I saw a picture of the two of you, arriving at some premiere, but I didn't know if it was serious.' It was not very serious. 'She's in LA, and we both work a lot. But we get a weekend together once in a while.' 'By the
Ken Follett
#30. I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.
Lil' Mama
#31. I never knew where I was going to end up when I started film. I didn't start film to be famous. Of course, it's a public medium, and of course we chose a public medium because we like people to pay attention to the work that we're doing. But I didn't know what I was going to end up.
Amy Seimetz
#32. You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.
B.B. King
#33. One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.
Michael Dell
#35. I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.
Julie Harris
#36. To be diagnosed was the hardest thing because I didn't know what they were talking about ... And the doctor said, Don't worry, in three months you'll know. So I went about my business and then, one day, it jumped me. I couldn't get up ... Your muscles trick you; they did me.
Richard Pryor
#37. I auditioned [for America's Most Talented Kids] just to see where I would rank. I had been playing [gigs] around town, and I wanted to see what people thought of me because when I played a show, everyone would clap but I didn't know what they were really thinking.
Cheyenne Kimball
#38. I wanted to kiss you for a long time, and I decided that might be my only chance. I've been miserable ever since." Troy ran his fingers along her jaw. "It was almost better when I didn't know how it felt to kiss you.
Cindi Madsen
#39. My eyes are blurry with half a dozen different kinds of pain. I didn't know it came in so many varieties, like flavors, acid and fire and ache and sting.
Veronica Roth
#40. A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.
Jake Johannsen
#41. I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.
Sebastian Vettel
#42. I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John)
I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)
Laurell K. Hamilton
#43. I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.
Bucky Pope
#44. I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.
Satchel Paige
#45. She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.
Ann Brashares
#46. We were all disconnected now. And I didn't know when the switchboard had gone down. What if he'd . . . drowned?
Kresley Cole
#47. One or two years ago, I didn't know who I was on court and I used to swear a lot. But now I've learned how to cope and can therefore win 10 matches in a row. I want to be remembered as a good player rather than an idiot on court.
Roger Federer
#48. What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.
Maggie Carey
#49. When I was younger I felt lonely. In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet.
Lana Del Rey
#50. I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
Barbara Eden
#51. When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank for me, but I just thought it was this fun thing that I was so excited to do. You got to be on the set and get a little bit of makeup and be on camera.
Chelan Simmons
#52. When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
Boyd Holbrook
#53. What my friends didn't know about me and I didn't know about Amma is that people who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpless vigil to our pain.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#54. I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.
Billy Graham
#55. I started playing instruments. Writing didn't come until later. I didn't know how to play a keyboard but I'd listen to hits off the radio, learn them, then my hands would be ready to play.
Amanda Perez
#56. I didn't know much about video games.
Anna Torv
#57. And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.
Chris Weitz
#58. In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
Michael Caine
#59. I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.
Laila Ali
#60. I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together.
Donna Shalala
#61. My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.
Ato Essandoh
#62. Oh. I didn't know that." "So, you're naming your dog Feathers because ...
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#63. I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could learn a lot about someone that way.
Robin Talley
#64. I didn't know how to define it
hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism?
this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.
Umberto Eco
#65. Hey there, Hallie, welcome to the next place we need a Deer Crossing sign.'
I didn't know that deers could read.'
They can in Cosgrove County. It's part of the No Deer Left Behind program.
Laura Pedersen
#66. I didn't know I'd ever be able to love my second child like I love my first; she came out, and I was amazed I could love them both equally.
Brad D. Smith
#67. I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.
Mary Crosby
#68. Did you know that 10% of all Americans have not had sex in 5 years? I didn't know there were so many Republicans ...
Jay Leno
#69. I think the biggest achievement of my life is that I followed my heart when I knew what it wanted, and had faith in destiny when I didn't know what it held.
Mansi Laus Deo
#70. Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
Susan Orlean
#71. I was disinterested in everything, even in Ethan. Even, I was ashamed to admit, in Ella. I didn't know where else I wanted to be but I knew it was anywhere except on this earth, in my body, living my life.
Leslie A. Gordon
#72. I'm not one of those people who had a burning passion for 'Peter Pan' all my life. Although I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story, I didn't carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#73. I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
Caitlin Rose
#74. The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
Deborah Norville
#75. I didn't know it then, but my persistence, perseverance, and unwillingness to accept defeat when things looked all but hopeless were part of the very character traits I would need to make it through World War II alive.
Louis Zamperini
#76. I didn't know it would be like this," he says in a whisper. And then: "I'm scared.
Lauren Oliver
#77. Beast wondered bitterly if Laurent's morals and convictions would have been as stern if it was Knight who'd tried to get into his pants. He'd probably come up with some stupid excuse after the deed was done, along the lines of, 'Oh, I didn't know sucking cock meant attraction!'. "Why
K.A. Merikan
#79. I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.
Amy Tan
#80. I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
David Bailey
#81. I have emotional needs that I didn't know I had, and I have physical needs that I didn't know weren't really needs.
Dov Davidoff
#82. She rubs my back and sighs.
Jesus Abby, I'm so sorry. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're still hung up on him. Big time.
Annie Brewer
#83. I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.
Charles Bukowski
#84. I didn't know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
Simon Van Booy
#85. My ex-boyfriend can round last night, which was weird because I didn't know he was in a coma.
Jo Brand
#86. An astronaut is someone who's able to make good decisions quickly, with incomplete information, when the consequences really matter. I didn't miraculously become one either, after just eight days in space. But I did get in touch with the fact that I didn't even know what I didn't know.
Chris Hadfield
#87. But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
Mariel Hemingway
#88. I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.
Jamaica Kincaid
#89. ...as if I didn't know that holding something too tightly could damage it irrevocably.
Karen White
#90. Only experience can lead you to what it is you want and sometimes, I wish I didn't have so much experience. Now I've got it, I sometimes yearn to have my naivety back again, just so that I didn't know the pain of trying to love someone who can't be loved.
Sarah Michelle Lynch
#91. Anna," he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.
Sarah Ockler
#92. Me: Oh! One time in high school, I spent the night at a girl's house who I didn't know very well. We made out. I wasn't into it, and it was really gross, but I was seventeen and curious.
Ridge: No. That does NOT count as a flaw, Sydney. Jesus Christ, work with me here.
Colleen Hoover
#93. I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'
Keke Palmer
#94. At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
Eberhard Weber
#95. What I didn't know until right this very minute was how growing up happens in little surges. We grow up in moments - when we encounter such stupidities in ourselves that our only choice is to grow past them or into them. Maybe that's why some kids grow up too fast and others not at all.
Natalie C. Parker
#96. When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn't know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.
Robbie Williams
#97. I didn't know it was possible to love someone other than you so much.
Sylvain Reynard
#98. Please," I tell her. "Please forgive me. I'm so sorry that I hurt you. I'm so sorry that I've been an asshole and that I shut you out. I didn't know how to handle things without being self-destructive. Self-destruction is all I've ever known. Deep down, it's what I felt like I deserved.
Courtney Cole
#99. You can't even go to Heaven if you get killed by Spinach, you can't even go. You don't even know what to tell Jesus. You Just 'You know what Jesus, I did have a salad, I really Did I- I Didn't know what I was thinking about.
Katt Williams
#100. But what are they?" Annie asked.
"An omphalos, probably," said Jacob.
"A what, dear?" Melinda asked.
"A bellybutton of the world."
"I didn't know it had one.
Caleb Crain
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