I Knew Quotes

#1. When I think now of all the lunatics I knew at Baryton's, I can't help suspecting that the only two manifestations of our innermost being are war and insanity, those two absolute nightmares.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#2. I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

David Prowse

#3. When I was asked to play 'Miss Marple,' I was given the Kevin Elyot script for 'The Body in the Library.' I was a fan of his theatre work anyway, and I just thought it was brilliant. I was immediately taken by 'Miss Marple,' so I read some of the novels, and I knew I had to do it.

Geraldine McEwan

#4. I knew myself broken, to burn over every refusal, to feel my blood rise at the slightest provocation, but knowing and fixing are different things.

Mark Lawrence

#5. Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place

Lawrence Hill

#6. I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.

Amy Winehouse

#7. I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.

Matisyahu

#8. I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

Katherine Dunn

#9. I knew exactly how I felt about Madoc. And I knew why I felt that way. I hated him. I hated what he did to me. But why in the hell did he hate me?

Penelope Douglas

#10. I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater. As far as wanting to make a profession out of it, I was about 13 or 14. When I first saw Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", when I saw Harrison Ford, I knew I wanted to be in movies.

Guy Wilson

#11. Eight years in the Wolston academy and I knew it all came down to the next 90 minutes.

P.J. Davitt

#12. I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there. I'm being completely honest. Nobody has a right in my view to seek Presidents office unless they are willing to give it 110 percent of who they are.

Joe Biden

#13. I wanted to ask him if that was part of the plan, but I knew he would have said yes. The plan was to make war; anything that followed was part of it.

Dinaw Mengestu

#14. Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

Willie Stargell

#15. I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.

Harry Hay

#16. I actually stopped talking. I actually listened. So I knew that I wasn't all the way manic, because when you're all the way manic you never listen to anybody but yourself.

Terri Cheney

#17. I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

J. Irwin Miller

#18. I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Alicia Silverstone

#19. I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

Gene Wolfe

#20. Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

Kristin Hersh

#21. I knew I was going to do something great. I knew I wasn't going to die 20 miles from where I was born, no 20 miles from where I lived.

Adrian Robinson

#22. I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

Kara Walker

#23. If I had to choose a moment in time when I knew my life would be different going forward - when I knew I would be different - this would be it.

T.M. Frazier

#24. It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before the word groupie even existed I knew that I wanted to share myself with someone who created that music and turned me on in every kind of way.

Pamela Des Barres

#25. For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me - as a girl and later as a woman - to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

Lisa See

#26. I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever.

Bill Cosby

#27. I needed forgiveness, because there were lots of sins in my past. I needed peace, because I'd been at war my entire life. I needed love, because I hated everybody. I needed strength, because deep inside I knew how weak I was. I needed happiness, because I'd been miserable for so long.

John Grisham

#28. Six months ago, I was intrigued, bewitched even, by this butterfly man. Now I was in love with him, impossibly so. Impossible because there was no going back from this. I was a changed man. My heart belonged wholly to him, and I knew, without a doubt, it always would.

N.R. Walker

#29. I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major.

Jean Grae

#30. I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

Celine Buckens

#31. Every day now, I found a chance to slip outside and leave food under the fence. I knew it was a drop in the ocean, but I could not do nothing.

Irene Gut Opdyke

#32. affectionate exasperated breath I knew

Donna Tartt

#33. When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

Nicole Blackman

#34. God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.

Augusten Burroughs

#35. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood. I felt older and smarter than anyone else I knew. I could do anything, anything at all.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#36. I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Abraham Lincoln

#37. I was the classiest bitch I knew. And if I wasn't, I was definitely the Cassiest, and that was close-e-fucking-nough. "How

Max Monroe

#38. All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

Louis Zamperini

#39. When I started to work in Paris in fine dining, the passion really kicked in, and I knew that I would not, for the rest of my life, do anything else.

Eric Ripert

#40. On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge until I knew everything there was to know, all the past cultures picked clean like delicious roasted chicken.

Lauren Groff

#41. I had some experience when I joined 'The Sopranos' in the last season. My character married Christopher, and everyone loved Adriana. I knew what it was like to join a very beloved, secretive show and following a very iconic character.

Cara Buono

#42. I was directing before I knew it was called that.

Guillermo Del Toro

#43. So what would make you happy?" "Well, if I knew that, I'd do it.

Rainbow Rowell

#44. What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to reach America and its promise of an enriched life so I knew we had a country rich in opportunity, but I also met those brilliant Jews already in America who had been denied that promise.

James A. Michener

#45. For me, it was faith that kept me going when I wanted to give up. I knew that God meant for me to fulfill a purpose in life.

Sarah Darer Littman

#46. My
emotional compass had vanished. I lost all sense of
direction, of time, of the sense of who I was. I don't know
when it began, or when it ended, but before I knew it I was
locked away, alone and numb in the endless winter of that
world of ice.

Haruki Murakami

#47. I wasn't a hoarder, but I knew my place gave off a Feral Child Hidey Hole vibe.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#48. More and more I knew my budding world was ruined if he were free in it. As a specimen Mr. Wallace might be my pride. Glory to him in a jar. But free! Better to release the sweet moving tiger or the delicate snake, the monumental elephant. I was just a castaway to be devoured.

William H Gass

#49. The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

Natasha Tsakos

#50. It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit.

Condoleezza Rice

#51. I love you so much, sweetheart. So much that sometimes I can't breathe. I can't think. You're all I've ever wanted, even before I knew I wanted it. I don't deserve you, Katherine.

Chelsea M. Cameron

#52. It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

Abbas Kiarostami

#53. I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Robert B. Parker

#54. I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

Mary Crosby

#55. I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Wynton Marsalis

#56. And that was despite the fact that she wasn't really here. I could see stars through her on the other side, although she wasn't a ghost. I knew ghosts. It was more like she was on an intertemporal version of Skype.

Karen Chance

#57. I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

Richard Donner

#58. I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

Bas Rutten

#59. The only thing I knew about him was that we had the same odd taste in music and that his butt looked really awesome in those jeans. There

Aileen Erin

#60. I could not undo overnight the damage that had been done to my psyche over many years. The only way over was through-I knew that_ but it was still debilitating and stressful. All I could do was face the fear and keep going.

Carolyn Jessop

#61. I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

Bill Ayers

#62. When I got the tattoo, I knew I was drawing a crooked line between myself and society.

Warren Ellis

#63. There is a pain that means things are coming apart. But then, sometimes there is a pain that means that things might be able to come back together. Surgery can be as painful as stabbing, but it leads to healing. I knew I was beginning to heal.

John Ortberg

#64. I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

Blake Lively

#65. Get your hand off me," I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. "I'm a professional, not some distraught girlfriend." Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene.

Kim Harrison

#66. I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

William Butler Yeats

#67. Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

Matt Taibbi

#68. But when your father announced his intentions for us, I knew I had to purge myself of the rage, because loving you ... loving you was bittersweet," he whispered against my lips. "Because I knew if I didn't do this, if I didn't get all the hatred out of me, I would never be the mate you deserved.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#69. When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

Bernard Marcus

#70. I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.

Anne Robinson

#71. America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you
no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

D.H. Lawrence

#72. I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#73. When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

Alan Dale

#74. I knew 'True Detective' wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had no real experience.

Nic Pizzolatto

#75. I'd used the word "beautiful" to describe another boy. I knew how it must have sounded to her. I also knew that it was exactly what I'd meant, exactly what I did not want to mean.

Amber Dermont

#76. I think I was almost 12, so I knew who George C. Scott was, but if I could work with George C. Scott now, I'd be so pumped.

Paul Dano

#77. I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

Al Yankovic

#78. In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates.

May Sarton

#79. All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't make it out. I wanted to bring them back to life and so, I wrote a book about them.

Sanela Ramic Jurich

#80. I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#81. I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me.

Tyrese Gibson

#82. The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.

Ted Nugent

#83. I knew deep in my heart that no one would ever compare to you. That no one else would ever own my heart and soul. That night you branded me as yours.

Heidi McLaughlin

#84. I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.

Tove Lo

#85. I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.

Stacey Snider

#86. I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.

Fantasia Barrino

#87. Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

Jane Badler

#88. I hardly think my berating you wildly when I arrived at the hotel was subtle behavior." "No?" Thomas grinned. "You berated me in Portuguese. For all I knew you were telling me I was the sexiest thing you'd seen in your life." "In your dreams," Inez chuckled.

Lynsay Sands

#89. You never did ... anything else with Ren?"
I knew he wasn't talking about me painting him and stuff. "Why would I want him when I got you?" And then I got worried, 'cause I wasn't sure if I still had Larry or not.

J.L. Merrow

#90. You shouldn't be," Neal said. He lifted his chin and looked directly in her eyes. For the second time in five minutes. For the second time ever. "I'm here because I knew you'd be here. Because I hoped you would be.

Rainbow Rowell

#91. You see, my buddies had a freedom I no longer had. All I wanted was to do something normal and skateboard with the guys, but i knew that if I went downstairs to join them it would create total chaos.

Justin Bieber

#92. Had I been too selfish? I had never known my mother, but I knew my life as it had been without her: the ship, the sea, the myths, the maps . . . and, yes, Kashmir. The pain I felt at the thought of losing him - the same pain that kept me at arm's length - gave me a hint of my father's own struggle.

Heidi Heilig

#93. To tell the truth, I had found it very hard to follow his reasoning, first because I was hot and there were big flies in his office that kept landing on my face, and also because he was scaring me a little. At the same time I knew that that was ridiculous because, after all, I was the criminal.

Albert Camus

#94. I arrived at the Swindon branch of TJ-Maxx at a little after two. I knew as well as anyone that the store hadn't been deliberately set up as a bargain store for end-of-line designer garments, but rather as a high-security facility for the imprisonment of dangerous criminals.

Jasper Fforde

#95. And that was when I knew. I had to kill him.

Kitty Thomas

#96. But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much.

J.K. Rowling

#97. Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.

Carolyn Mackler

#98. I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

Jeremy Collier

#99. I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew!

Alexander Chee

#100. I knew from that moment on that all the fairy tale bullshit I was fed by Disney and everyone else was nonexistent. I stopped looking for it, got more realistic, and I've been fine. Until now," I look up into Corbin's eyes. "Until you.

Kandi Steiner