Top 100 I Never Know Quotes
#1. I never know in advance what I will photograph, ... I Go Out into the World and Hope I Will come across something that Imperatively interests me. I Am Addicted to the Found object. I have No doubt that I Will Continue to make Photographs till my last Breath.
Ansel Adams
#2. I never know what people want to hear when they say that stuff. And it's not like anything about me is interesting or nothing. "Have you always lived in Cambridge?" I nodded. "Do you live alone?" I nodded again. So then he gave up on twenty questions and started telling me about himself.
J.L. Merrow
#3. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.
Christopher Walken
#4. I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.
Dolly Parton
#5. I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
Etgar Keret
#6. Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try." He blinked and laughed softly. "I never know what you'll say next." "I don't either.
Ilona Andrews
#7. I never know what you're thinking, and you're only forthcoming when you're furious. Like now.
Sylvain Reynard
#8. I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.
Carol Kane
#9. I hate telling people this. I never know exactly how my voice is going to sound saying it, and I hate the stricken looks they get on their faces when they don't know what to say back.
Kendare Blake
#10. I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.
Sally Quinn
#11. I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.
Romeo Dallaire
#12. I never know what will happen. I have fallen on my face - not literally, thank goodness! - many times. But I always survive. And I don't let it stop me.
China Forbes
#13. I never know when chat-up lines are happening! I don't hear them enough. I don't get hit on enough.
Kelly Rowland
#14. Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment.
Michael Jordan
#15. When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
Alberto Moravia
#16. For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.
Marcel Tabuteau
#17. I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#18. When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam's cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first, or simply hum the Star Spangled Banner between mouthfuls.
Chila Woychik
#19. I never know the right thing to say, especially during sex. After my first time, I said to the girl, 'That's it, I'm afraid'
Tom Deacon
#20. I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
Tanith Lee
#21. I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan.
Steve Buscemi
#22. I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be ... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.
Haruki Murakami
#23. People tend to say, 'You're not as fat or as ugly as I expected.' I never know how to reply. It's a bit of a slap, but they don't mean it, I'm sure.
Siobhan Finneran
#24. I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.
Sue Monk Kidd
#25. When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.
Joan Miro
#26. Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#27. I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
Rita Rudner
#28. But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
Carla Bruni
#29. True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
Jane Lindskold
#30. I turned away, took a deep breath, and sheathed the weapon. I never know what to
say after I've intimidated someone; I ought to keep a list of tough-guy remarks.
Steven Brust
#31. I'm assuming you're as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin.
No. I'm not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.
[silence]
This is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good.
Joss Whedon
#32. I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.
Andy Warhol
#33. I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
Al Hirschfeld
#34. I never know what I'm going to want to curl up in bed with." I shrug.
"How about a man?" she retorts.
Alexandra Potter
#35. The life of a model is so varied that I never know what will be happening from one week to the next.
Amber Le Bon
#36. I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.
Kim Edwards
#37. I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.
Asif Kapadia
#38. My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.
T. S. Eliot
#39. I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
Janet Fitch
#40. I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"
Robert Downey Jr.
#42. Like pretty much every cat I've ever met, Jeter swings back and forth between loving me and trying to murder me, so I never know exactly what I'm getting.
Matthew Norman
#43. In an existence like mine forecasts could not be made: I never know what could happen to me in the next half hour, I can't imagine a life all made up of minimal alternatives, carefully circumscribed, on which bets can be made: either this or that.
Italo Calvino
#44. I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?"
"Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.
J.K. Rowling
#45. When someone yells "STOP," I never know if it's in the name of love, if it's Hammertime or if I should collaborate and listen...
(borrowed from Pinterest.)
Jackie Schnupp
#46. I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.
Sergio Aragones
#47. I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.
Tracy Letts
#48. I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
John Irving
#49. Writing is always a process of discovery - I never know the end,or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There is a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.
Kim Edwards
#50. I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
Jacqueline Woodson
#51. I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.
Brandon Stanton
#52. I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
Donna Leon
#53. I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.
John C. Calhoun
#54. To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there are very few politicians with integrity, so I never know who to bat for.
Jamie Sives
#55. I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
Peter Max
#56. I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
Cameron Mackintosh
#57. It doesn't matter how many times I've been called a name, it still hurts - and it still always comes as such a surprise that I never know how to respond. Or maybe I do, but I'm afraid.
James Howe
#58. I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know.
Arnold Bennett
#59. I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.
Donna Leon
#62. I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one's own name written in a strange alphabet and recognizing it, I say it: the heron.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#63. I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.
Adele Griffin
#64. I never know exactly where I'm going with a story, whether it's a short story or a novel. If I did I'd soon grow bored of it. The fun, for me, is in the finding out and the making sense of it.
Nicholas Royle
#65. I honestly just love Greek yogurt and honey, and berries, and some KIND granola or something because that's always something that I'm down to eat. But everything else, like anything savory just has to be ordered really last minute because I never know.
Chrissy Teigen
#66. I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am.
Jules Feiffer
#67. So if you love me, let me go.
And run away before I know.
My heart is just too dark to care.
I can't destroy what isn't there.
Deliver me into my fate -
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you ...
My smile was taken long ago
If I can change I hope I never know
Slipknot
#68. I never know what you're thinking. "
" Maybe you should stop trying to get into my head. You probably wouldn't like it in there anyways. "
" I think you're wrong.
Meredith Wild
#69. I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.
Tracy Letts
#70. I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know.
Robert Antoni
#71. One of my recurring D-list moments is when people stop me in the airport and tell me they loved me on SNL. I never know if they think I'm Molly Shannon, Cheri Oteri, or Chris Kattan. I just say Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed me as Mango.
Kathy Griffin
#72. I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.
Kaley Cuoco
#73. For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.
Joe Mantegna
#74. It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."
Bill Watterson
#75. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen Fry
#76. The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
John Bunyan
#77. Oh, please don't cry!" I begged in a hushed voice. "I never know what to do when women cry!
Kiera Cass
#78. On the set I never know what day of the week it is.
Taye Diggs
#79. I never know what you're thinking. Sometimes you're so closed off ... like an island slate. You intimidate me. That's why I keep quiet. I don't know which way your mood is going to go. It swings from north to south and back again in a nanosecond.
E.L. James
#80. I don't like public venues. I never know what to wear.
Glenn Close
#81. I never know what I'm going to say as I walk up to the microphone. I try to be in the moment. I try to go deeper into myself. I discover things on stage that I don't discover off stage about me.
Greg Fitzsimmons
#82. I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.
Mary-Louise Parker
#83. I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.
Annie Fellows Johnston
#84. I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.
Christopher Walken
#85. 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
#86. My novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end ...
John Geddes
#87. I never know how much of what I say is true.
Bette Midler
#88. A film is like a message dropped in a bottle in the sea that somebody finds. Every time somebody finds it, it's a miracle. But, I don't know what the perception will be. I can know what I tried to do, but I never know what the perception is.
Jaco Van Dormael
#89. Essentially, I never know what I'm going to do until I read the script, but a good story is a good story. I would like to do more modern stuff, but ultimately, it doesn't matter to me - good stories are timeless.
Rupert Evans
#90. I never know if the person I'm shaking hands with is coming to kill me. That's something you have to live with when you cross the lines.
Ice-T
#91. Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.
Joss Whedon
#92. I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.
Alexandra Daddario
#93. What if I don't know what I want?" I ask her, voicing the fear that rages through me. "What if I never know? What if I'm wrong?
Carrie Ryan
#94. A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.
Gilbert Arenas
#95. One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
Samm Levine
#96. I never know what I'm going to wear until five minutes before I go somewhere ... I guess I know what I'm comfortable in. I don't know how to describe that, I mean you either put it on and go 'no way' or 'OK, let's go.'
Kristen Stewart
#97. The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.
Emma Donoghue
#99. When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone in one of my books.
Stifyn Emrys
#100. Could there be a cowgirl in my future? You know, I never know what character is going to come and tap me on the shoulder and say, 'Hey, tell my story.' So maybe the next one will have boots.
Susan Isaacs
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