Top 100 Know Someone Quotes
#1. I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without ... needing space."
Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her.
"There's no air in space," he said.
Rainbow Rowell
#2. I didn't really want to patent it because, for one, I don't like software patents, and, two, if you patent it, you make it public. Even if you don't know someone's infringing, they will still be getting the benefit. Instead, we just chose to keep it a trade secret and not show it to anyone.
Jessica Livingston
#3. Our reputations precedes us. If I know someone is not nice, not kind, an asshole - I generally don't want to work with them.
Dwayne Johnson
#4. Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.
Dallas Athent
#5. Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
Ben Stein
#6. If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.
Jodi Picoult
#7. If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#8. Trouble is , he says, you think you know someone - you could swear you knew what they were capable of - and then they go and suprise you. Human nature.
Julie Myerson
#9. I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.
Lisa Marie Presley
#10. Some day you will have a nemesis,' Madame warned bitterly. 'It's not easy, you know. Someone who has the ability to do everything you wish you could, but with greater ease, style, success.
Kathleen Tessaro
#11. Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
Madonna Ciccone
#12. I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.
David Ebershoff
#13. But that's the thing about judgment, if you give your initial opinion of someone too much weight and accept it as fact before really taking the time to really get to know someone, you risk missing out on a lot.
Hannah Hart
#14. You never really know someone until your relationship with them is over.
Paul Doiron
#15. The power of a network can be reduced to it's simplest form in 'I know someone who knows someone who knows someone.
Michele Jennae
#16. It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
Daisy Fuentes
#17. I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
Hill Harper
#18. She left," Cath said, "and she never came back. Who does that?"
"I don't know ... someone who's missing a piece.
Rainbow Rowell
#19. There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you, and then when it does, that's when you feel like shit.
Jesse Andrews
#20. I didn't know someone whom I wasn't seeking, could make me feel like I didn't need to search anymore.
Nikki Rowe
#21. No, he wasn't like them at all. And even though my experience with the opposite sex was pitifully non-existent, this was someone I wanted to know. Someone I needed to know. Someone I needed to have know me.
Penelope King
#22. My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
Craig Groeschel
#23. I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.
Sara Quin
#24. You know someone is mad when they cease caring about the retention of their bodily fluids.
Andersen Prunty
#25. Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.
Dorothy West
#26. I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.
John Slattery
#27. Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!
Rupert Everett
#28. If you want to know someone, just look at who they choose to spend their time with.
Amy Chan
#29. Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.
Sarah Dessen
#30. No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#31. I never really knew her," I said. "But you loved her," Ida answered, and again I wasn't sure if she meant that as an accusation or comfort. Was it less important or more important to know someone than to love them?
Nancy Richler
#32. To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge - we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#33. I know someone who has never been able to read _The Cuckoo Clock_ since leaving her girlhood home, because it had to be read sitting halfway up the stairs, where the light through a stained-glass landing window fell on it, staining the pages red and blue and green.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#34. When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.
Jimmy Kimmel
#35. You can know someone in a moment of Honesty than ever you can in a lifetime of Lies..
Javan
#37. A wrong is just a wrong no matter who's doin' it or who it's done to. You know someone's doin' wrong and even if it has not one thing to do with you, you do what you can to right that wrong. You don't, you're no kind of person or, at least, no kind I'd wanna know.
Kristen Ashley
#38. You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.
John Irving
#39. There are a lot of good looking men on this planet. It seems like once a week someone will tell me, "I know someone who looks like you" and I don't know what say to them except, "Tell them hi."
Jim Gaffigan
#40. For heaven's sake, if you don't know someone's name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, "Nice to see you!" and make weak eye contact.
Mindy Kaling
#41. I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.
Bitsie Tulloch
#42. Does this mean we can eat pie today?" Easton asked. Riley let out a snorting laugh. "I know someone who will be." Nice.
Erin McCarthy
#43. In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
Robin McKinley
#44. It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters.
THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104
Richard Paul Evans
#45. It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#46. Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.
Jill Conner Browne
#47. There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
Helen Gurley Brown
#48. Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.
Simon McBurney
#49. There are moments, when you're getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you've known your whole life.
Leah Raeder
#50. But even so, I wondered
how well do we really ever know someone?
Beth Hoffman
#51. You don't have to know someone your whole life to know them. Not really. Lonely is the same everywhere.
Lamar Giles
#52. How well do we actually know ourselves? Can we dare to say that we really know someone, like really, really know them?
Nico J. Genes
#53. Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.
Neal Shusterman
#54. So, please people, if you know someone with AD(H)D, don't try to change that about them. Don't take that one skill away, or make them feel ashamed to use it. Sometimes procrastination is all they have in their little superhero tool belt!
Stacey Turis
#55. Maybe all you need to pull you back form the ledge is to know someone would miss you if you fell.
Leah Raeder
#56. To know someone loves you just for being you is the greatest feeling in the world.
Tommy Cotton
#57. You don't know someone until you've seen their darkness.
C.M. Rayne
#58. Often when we get to know someone whose words and deeds were off-putting, once we get a better sense of how that person is understanding events, our dislike dissipates.
Thomas Gilovich
#59. It is very easy to know someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget them.
Debasish Mridha
#60. You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?
Cassandra Clare
#61. No, she doesn't know it's me. I'm in disguise. Look, I know someone who does this with just a pair of glasses. And I have glasses AND a moustache.
Dan Slott
#62. I bet you know someone who could use a few naked jocks in their life.
Ben Monopoli
#63. The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and there is no operating novelist to dispel the blur.
Julian Barnes
#64. You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that's what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.
Ava Dellaira
#65. It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.
Jeanne Phillips
#66. How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
Margaret Mitchell
#67. You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.
Marianne Wiggins
#68. There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.
John Irving
#69. In the former Soviet republics, there are three staples of life: vodka, chocolate, and corruption. I know someone who once survived in Uzbekistan for two weeks solely on these three items.
Eric Weiner
#70. It's good netiquette to get to know someone in social media before giving out your phone number.
David Chiles
#71. As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.
Martha Beck
#72. Some of us do so much to make others happy. Sad thing is, some of us dont even know someone that would do the same for us.
Wiz Khalifa
#73. Just when you think you know someone, they change. Or you change. Or maybe you both change. And that changes everything.
Kim Holden
#74. Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.
Sally Pearson
#75. I thought humans were or weren't, I didn't know someone could be a bit human. Then what are his other bits?
Emma Donoghue
#76. It's interesting how you can know someone for a long time, and then one day you just see them in this whole different way.
Susane Colasanti
#77. All these years he's been so careful, but now he's willing to take a chance. Because he's found someone who wants to know. Someone he wants to tell.
Ally Condie
#78. The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy ... you know ... someone whose flaws you can live with ... someone who can stand your flaws, too.
Marcia Lynn McClure
#79. Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.
Antonya Nelson
#80. Beauty is fleeting. I know someone important said that, but I have no idea who it was. I jut know it's true. So I'm gonna grab this second chance with everything I've got and I'm gonna ride this wave until it spits me back out on the beach of bullshit.
J.A. Huss
#81. You never truly know someone until you've stood in their shoes and walked around in them.
James Van Praagh
#82. It's hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.
Sarah Noffke
#83. You're a very special girl, Penryn. An amazing girl. An I-didn't-even-know-someone-like-you-existed kind of girl. And you deserve someone who treats you like you're the only important thing in his life because you are. Someone who plows his fields and raises pigs just for you.
Susan Ee
#84. I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
Kali Hawk
#85. I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.
Michael Rady
#86. To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#87. It was hard to understand how you could know someone all your life, think that you knew everything about them, then one Sunday they'd be standing in the kitchen of the flat that you both owned and seem like a total stranger
Sarra Manning
#88. The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.
Jesse Metcalfe
#89. If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#90. I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.
Michael Caine
#91. Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
Penelope Lively
#92. No matter how well you know someone, there's still a part of them you won't. You can't. Like, ever. A locked room. I don't know.
Rick Yancey
#93. You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.
Joe Hill
#94. To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.
Sy Montgomery
#95. When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?
John C. Maxwell
#96. You get to know someone better not when they talk about themselves, but when they talk about others
S.E. Sever
#97. And I thought I knew him. I knew him; I repeat it in my head bitterly. It's a funny thing to say, you know, to think that you know someone. Well, maybe once I DID know him, but I just wasn't smart enough to notice him change, because people do change, sometimes we just choose not to notice it.
Melanie Sargsian
#98. You don't really know someone until you see them in the dark.
Pam Godwin
#99. It could take a lifetime to really get to know someone. Do we ever really know everything about the people we love? No, I think that takes time, trust and respect.
Loni Flowers
#100. It's kind of amazing how well you can get to know someone without talking.
Rhea Seehorn