Top 100 Know People Quotes
#1. There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.
Willie Nelson
#2. I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.
Maya Forbes
#3. I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
Kim Kardashian
#4. We also all know people who could do so much more if only they believed in themselves. Like so many things, a lack of confidence can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I don't know how to convince anyone to believe deep down that she is the best person for the job, not even myself.
Sheryl Sandberg
#5. This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.
Junot Diaz
#6. I think you get noticed a lot more as a brunette, but I don't know. People approach me, I think, but maybe it's because of the reality show.
Ashlee Simpson
#7. In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#8. It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.
Eugene Richards
#9. Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.
Dave Chappelle
#10. If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They're going through something that's very, very hard.
Eric Millegan
#11. More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.
Mustafa SULTAN
#12. I know people like myself where we've got resorts, or we're in the hospitality business, and we just can't make money because you're paying someone minimum $42 per hour or something on a Sunday.
Gerry Harvey
#13. I know people go on about Twitter, but it is amazing. It's whatever you want it to be, and all the women got in there before the boys.
Caitlin Moran
#14. I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style.
Charlie Kaufman
#15. Every day you are apt to see someone whom you thought you knew through and through do something that proves how little you really know people or can be certain about anything.
Hermann Hesse
#16. I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.
Dennis Farina
#17. There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
Betty Wright
#18. I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.
Matthew McConaughey
#19. Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
Ken Auletta
#20. I feel very strongly about contraception even though I know people say that, as a good Catholic girl, I shouldn't. But I disagree because I think one of the keys to women's progression in the 20th century is being able to control their fertility.
Cherie Blair
#21. You know, people would always ask me, 'How long is Primus going to go on?' And I would say, 'Until it isn't fun anymore.' At the end of the '90s, it just wasn't fun anymore on many levels.
Les Claypool
#22. I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#23. I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.
Amanda Schull
#24. Somewhere in me is a curiosity sensor. I want to know what's over the next hill. You know, people can live longer without food than without information. Without information, you'd go crazy.
Arthur C. Clarke
#25. We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.
Oswald Chambers
#26. I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
Orson Welles
#27. There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
Bryant H. McGill
#28. The more I know people, the more I love my dog.
A.S. King
#29. You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.
Tyler Perry
#30. Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
Dennis Potter
#31. It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.
Rick Astley
#32. You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that
Ronald Reagan
#33. How old are you?" asks Plastic again.
"That doesn't matter," says StingRay. "What matters is how much stuff I know. People who know a lot of stuff don't need birthdays.
Emily Jenkins
#34. You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.
Jonathan Carroll
#35. You know, people really know me from 'The Best Man.' I've done five other movies since then, but it always comes back to 'The Best Man.' It was time to do the sequel.
Malcolm D. Lee
#36. I know people who are medicated and it's their favorite subject.
David Lipsky
#37. I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.
Taraka Larson
#38. I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.
Andrej Pejic
#39. You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.
James Hillman
#40. As you well know, people choose to became a victim or a hero.
Lucinda Riley
#41. The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.
Margaret Atwood
#42. There's a voice inside of me that I know people will relate to; I just haven't really had the opportunity to let it flourish. To sit there and explain to a guy what it's like to be a kick-ass woman is hard. I think there're only a handful of directors out there that get it.
Michelle Rodriguez
#43. I know people think erotica is just a romance novel with rougher sex. It's not. If it's a subgenre of anything, it's horror.
Horror? Really?
Romance is sex plus love. Erotica is sex plus fear.
Tiffany Reisz
#44. I didn't know people could hug your soul with their soul.
Kim Holden
#45. I know people whose lives have been transformed by a good deed.
Walter Moers
#46. I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.
Natalie Dormer
#47. I don't know where actors go after they die, but I know people who help other people have a nice place to go. And I would like to go there if I can.
Jeff Conaway
#48. I know people who enjoy having 10 people running around and doing things for them. I don't. I feel awkward in such situations. It gives you a false sense of importance.
Sonam Kapoor
#49. I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.
Gladys Knight
#50. As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.
John Darnielle
#51. I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?
Steve Wozniak
#52. That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.
Morgan Freeman
#53. DID YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT [SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WILL READ THIS DISCUSSION GUIDE BEFORE THEY'VE READ THE BOOK, EVEN THOUGH I JUST FORBADE YOU TO DO SO LIKE SIX PARAGRAPHS AGO] WAS INTENTIONAL WHILE YOU WERE WRITING IT?
John Green
#54. We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.
Andrew Sean Greer
#55. You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.
John Wilson
#56. I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.
Chetan Bhagat
#57. You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.
Salman Rushdie
#58. You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
Robert Wise
#59. Masks are elaborate and everyone has one. It takes a while to get to know people. This doesn't make them mysterious, it makes them like everyone else.
Donna Lynn Hope
#60. You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.
James Stewart
#61. Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
James Denton
#62. I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.
Tracey Gold
#63. I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.
Virginia Satir
#64. Its hard to smile when you know people,they around you for one thing to see you fail or destroy you
Prince Simus
#65. I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.
Steve Buscemi
#66. We don't need your pity. We get along just fine without it and them other things too. You don't need electronic crap to live. You know, people lived for thousands of years without it. There's a big difference between stuff you want and stuff you need. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's ... none of us can. I hate saying no to people.
Morgan Freeman
#68. I don't know people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.
Betty White
#69. I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these things. Sadly, most of the threats we encounter are at home.
Paula Hawkins
#70. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#71. You never really got to know people properly until you had seen them within the ambiance of their own home. Seen their furniture and their books and the manner of their lifestyle.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#72. You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
Carly Simon
#73. I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.
Danny Masterson
#74. Whether or not, you know, people think that Martin Shkreli is the worst person in the world, the reality is that he is the symptom or a larger problem in an pharmacology industry.
Joy-Ann Reid
#76. I always thought you were someone things happened to."
"What sorts of things?"
"You know. I thought you led a life of risk and adventure."
She shrugged. "Here's what I know: People will think that, if you have a certain kind of hair.
M T Anderson
#77. We're not saints, any of us. Maybe somebody is, but I don't know those people. But we all know people who behave very smugly and are very egotistical and put you down as a manner of improving their own place in the world or improving their own place in the world.
Heidi Julavits
#78. Facebook people are finding me that I don't really know. People poke you on Facebook. I'm like, 'Why? Why are you poking me?'
Bridget Kelly
#79. I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.
Patrick J. Adams
#80. I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow ... I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
Barbara Kingsolver
#81. You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.
Kevin Drew
#82. Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!
Anne Frank
#83. I feel very silly saying to you, Tell me all about yourself, but I wish you would. I want to get to know you.
That's not how you get to know people. Don't you know? You can't talk it out, you've got to live into their lives, bad and good. You'll know me soon enough. What I want you to know.
Katherine Paterson
#84. For a very long time, we've been extraordinarily interested in the interaction between low temperature and low oxygen. We see that they're connected because we know people who are extremely cold are not getting oxygen to their cells. And yet, they're sometimes alive.
Mark Roth
#85. I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.
Sylvester Stallone
#86. The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
Alice Hoffman
#87. Buddy of yours?" Manfred asked, when he was sure his voice would be even.
"I don't think snake-shifters have buddies," Lemuel said. "They just know people they haven't tried to eat yet.
Charlaine Harris
#88. You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.
Sarah Dunn
#89. I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
Zooey Deschanel
#90. In food, it's really, like, either you're right, or you're wrong. You know, people's taste buds kind of vary, but there's a technique. Either you do it right, or you don't.
Kelis
#91. They-" He stopped and just blinked at me for a minute. "You know, people are always saying that you're cuckoo. Looney Tunes. Off the freaking edge. But I tell 'em, no, she's okay. She's got some ... anger management issues. But you know what? They're right. You're nuts.
Karen Chance
#92. I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
Vincent Cassel
#93. I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.
Antony Hegarty
#94. It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.
Caroline Kepnes
#95. Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.
Rich Sommer
#96. And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end.
Orson Scott Card
#97. We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.
Amanda Filipacchi
#98. Social networking platforms made it unnecessary to know people to know people.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#99. I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.
Estelle Parsons
#100. We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they've got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.
Bruce Barcott
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