Knew I Quotes

#1. The thing I knew I needed to let go of most was anger. I would have to take on faith that something else would come in its place.

Rachel Reiland

#2. By about chapter six of 'Wolf Brother,' I was having so much fun that I knew I wanted it to go on and I couldn't tell Torak's story in one book. So I sat down, and it took me about a week to plan in broad outline all six books.

Michelle Paver

#3. My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

Andrew Cherng

#4. People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

John Higgins

#5. Mara is the one I never knew I was waiting for, and as long as she'll have me, I will never let her go.

Michelle Hodkin

#6. When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

Jason Wu

#7. I knew I really had to put down a good run. I played it safe, and took risks when I could, and I came in the fastest, I guess.

Julia Mancuso

#8. I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

Amy Adams

#9. 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

#10. I remember my own childhood vividly ... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

Maurice Sendak

#11. And with that, he was gone, leaving me alone. Only I wasn't alone. In fact, I knew I would never be alone again.

James Redfield

#12. I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!

Joss Whedon

#13. I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.

Bryan Adams

#14. Lord, I'm thankful for every stumble because it was then that You lifted me; I'm thankful for every heartache that made me stronger than I knew I could be.

Lisa Mischelle Wood

#15. I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'

Jeremy Lloyd

#16. I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

Nicole Scherzinger

#17. I knew I was crossing a line I shouldn't. I mean taking my brothers girl, I might as well call the morgue to reserve my spot.

Michelle Lynn

#18. As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

Bill Watterson

#19. I didn't want to be a virgin. That much I knew. I didn't want to feel like the immature prude who knew nothing about sex. I hated not knowing things. The trouble was ... as much as I didn't want to be a virgin, I also didn't want to have sex.

Cora Carmack

#20. He laughed. He had a similar appliance in his truck, a Lo-Jack, and where it was installed nobody knew. "I get it." "Good man. If you have any questions or concerns, you can call us, right?" "Right.

Diana Palmer

#21. 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

#22. I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.

Caity Lotz

#23. She knew I was coming to see you, so I don't think she'll be surprised

Nora Roberts

#24. That's how I knew I loved her so much, because not loving her didn't make any sense once I'd known what it felt like.

John Corey Whaley

#25. I knew I wanted to do a show on NBC - it's rooted in its history; it's part rooted in nostalgia and part rooted in the potential of it. For me, there was no other choice.

Jerrod Carmichael

#26. Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a 'do I or don't I?'; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.

Ruby Rose

#27. 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

#28. I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

Rachel Nichols

#29. At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.

Erika Christensen

#30. That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

David Amram

#31. I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.

Gillian Flynn

#32. I knew I could do it all this time," said Harry, "Because I'd already done it ... does that make sense?

J.K. Rowling

#33. I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Jane Gardam

#34. She couldn't have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade.

Kiera Cass

#35. The Gods made me special because They knew I could handle the ignorance.

D. Alexandria

#36. I always knew I was going to be a public figure. There was no doubt.

Shakira

#37. I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd never be able to hear again.

Rob Sheffield

#38. I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.

Kim Cattrall

#39. I had to work hard and hit the books because the opportunity to play in the NFL is not really that big, so I knew I needed something to fall back on. That's the message I want to send to those kids when I talk to them in person and let them know the most important thing is getting your education.

Jerry Rice

#40. Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

Michael J. Fox

#41. I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

Gia Coppola

#42. I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible. But I would not die before I would make that victory certain.

George Lincoln Rockwell

#43. The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

H.A. Lamb

#44. ... I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Roberto Bolano

#45. 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

#46. As we sat, huddled together in this rotting, rundown building, I knew I was surrounded by the most intense love I'd ever known.

Rachel Higginson

#47. And I knew I would nevr have that everything's-right-in-my-world feeling again.

Diane Chamberlain

#48. 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

#49. [He] made me feel ... large, maybe. In a way I hadn't before. But he didn't know that. For all he knew, I was always that large. It felt good. Fun. Unexpectedly large is sudden, magic levitation - you're high, an impervious Balloon of Joy.

Deb Caletti

#50. It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.

Richard Hawley

#51. And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,
Whom only death would treat as the equal
Of other men

Edgar Lee Masters

#52. I always knew I wanted to be in television when I was a kid, and I knew I wanted to model.

Lisa Leslie

#53. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

Mary Ellen Mark

#54. 'Thirteen Orphans' is the name of a specific limit hand. The same combination is also called 'Thirteen Improbable.' Once I'd decided I wanted to write a tale where mah-jong would be at the heart, I also knew I wanted to use limit hands.

Jane Lindskold

#55. There was no instinct to pretend - there was only the wish to protect the girl I knew I would love forever.

Jay Crownover

#56. Your heart was good but you forgot to guard it. You killed yourself slowly because of this. The heart is the true measure of a man or woman. I loved you and I know that you knew I loved you. We all have addictions. Some are just more obvious to the eye. We are all dying, but we are all living.

Kiese Laymon

#57. When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Schultz

#58. Thomas thought about how he'd always felt a connection to her, ever since she arrived in the Glade. He wanted to dig a little more and see what she said:
-What are you talking about?
-Wish I knew. I'm just trying to bounce ideas off you to see if it sparks anything in your mind.

James Dashner

#59. I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done.
But all I did was walk away without looking back.

Lisa Kleypas

#60. Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

Peter Blegvad

#61. My day jobs ... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

Dave Attell

#62. I knew I needed Aubrey. I needed her in the worst way possible. I was selfish and frantic, and I honestly didn't care if I took her to hell with me because she would make the trip the sweetest thing I had ever experienced.
She was mine.
And I'd never let her go.

A Meredith Walters

#63. I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.

Anne Hathaway

#64. In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I knew I would incur some outrage with 'American Caesars.'

Nigel Hamilton

#65. Whatever Arys had been up to recently, it wasn't any saner than what I'd been doing. He was losing it, and I was willing to bet he didn't even realize it. At least I knew I was going mad.

Trina M. Lee

#66. I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

Siri Hustvedt

#67. I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

Tyler Oakley

#68. I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Gene Tierney

#69. When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.

Chelsea Peretti

#70. I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

Steve Martin

#71. Of course, I always knew I was Romeo, but I had never thought much about Giulietta before. Now I started thinking about her, and I realized that it was a very strange thing to be Romeo, when there is no Giulietta in the world. Strange and lonely.

Anne Fortier

#72. It's not often a thriller keeps me wound up as well as 'Headhunters' did. I knew I was being manipulated and didn't care. It was a pleasure to see how well it was being done.

Roger Ebert

#73. They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

Mark Goddard

#74. I did not intend to stay; I had no experience in the United States - I may have been here less than 24 hours - but I knew I would never get inside there. And 'there' not being America necessarily, but that harmonious mode of living that some people are lucky enough to have in this country.

Aleksandar Hemon

#75. I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.

Ben Daniels

#76. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I'd have to stop. I'd have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return.

Courtney Giardina

#77. I watched you fall in love with me. I saw the smile cross your lips when it happened. I remember that day. I was the first day I knew I had no heart.

Tara Brown

#78. But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.

Matt De La Pena

#79. I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Edna O'Brien

#80. 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

#81. You touch everyone, Emily. You touch a father's heart. A stranger's loyalty, and the soul I never knew I
had. You touch it, and you remind us of all the innocence we've lost in the world.
- Kell Krieger

Lora Leigh

#82. You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

Ian Frazier

#83. I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined.

Carolyn Ives Gilman

#84. 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

#85. It was a world I'd never been to and yet had known was there all along, one I'd staggered to in sorrow and confusion and fear and hope. A world I thought would both make me into the woman I knew I could become and turn me back into the girl I'd once been.

Cheryl Strayed

#86. I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

Catherine O'Hara

#87. I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Hedda Sterne

#88. I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

Owen Benjamin

#89. I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

George Carlin

#90. I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

Carl Sandburg

#91. I stepped into the shadows, telling myself not to be afraid. Yet I knew I would either find something worth living for or I would stay dead.

Zachary Koukol

#92. The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.

Gabrielle Zevin

#93. I knew I didn't want to be alone anymore.

Bill Clegg

#94. I never considered myself to be essentially different from anyone else. Although I knew I was.

Frederick Lenz

#95. knew I had to walk with my head up, and learned that I'm a human and that we are capable of mistakes, disappointments, the right to change our mind and we have the right to change what we want to in life.

Stormey Ramdhan

#96. He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

Rick Yancey

#97. Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

Balthazar Getty

#98. It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it.

Bille August

#99. I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.

John Allison

#100. I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."

Joel McHale