Quotes About I Knew It

#1. I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble."
"Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#2. I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.

Adrian Rogers

#3. I knew,' it gasped, sensing my shift in thoughts. 'The tracking...I knew of it.'
'Then why come at all?'
'You...were kind. You...fought your fear. You were...kind.'
I began crying.

Sarah J. Maas

#4. I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.

Suzanne Collins

#5. I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.

Marv Levy

#6. Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

Augusten Burroughs

#7. I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

Will Ferrell

#8. It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

Ian McDiarmid

#9. before I knew it, I started writing in my head. It drowns out the whispers.

Merrie Destefano

#10. I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

Celine Dion

#11. I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

Gregory Hines

#12. When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.

Peter Sis

#13. I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.

David Millar

#14. How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful.

John Grisham

#15. Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I'd ever say.

Jay Asher

#16. I remember thinking I wanted to die rather than live through another February day of grayness; I didn't tell anyone because I knew it wasn't normal. And normal was all I ever wanted to be.

Sharon E. Rainey

#17. And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#18. I remember wishing the moment would hold forever; that we could be fixed there, laughing and irredescent... Then I got panicky because I knew it would pass; that it was passing already.

Tina Howe

#19. Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis
It was a dream I had last week
And some kind of record seemed vital.
I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem
But I love the title.

Wendy Cope

#20. Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

Anne Rice

#21. I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that's what mattered to me. I was giving up a piece of my own as well, but it was a choice.
His was just collateral.

Rachael Wade

#22. His kiss ... well, it made me. He made me. And because of that, I knew it went both ways. He made me. I made him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

Vesta Williams

#24. I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

Idina Menzel

#25. The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it

Ted Hughes

#26. I knew it the moment I saw the scar, saw the flatness behind her eyes, like a pool that has lost all its depth.
Either she doesn't detect the challenge or she chooses to ignore it.

Lauren Oliver

#27. You don't know what it's been like all these years, seeing things that are invisible to everybody else. I knew I wasn't crazy, I knew it, but the rest of the world thought I was, and after a while even I started to wonder, you know?

C.A. Gray

#28. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Rene Descartes

#29. I'm constantly surprised by ... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know.

Shane Carruth

#30. He's safe, I repeated to myself over and over again. But even I knew it wasn't the truth. For now he was safe, but they'd find him. Eventually they'd find him, they always do. I was supposed to protect him. I was supposed to keep him alive. Instead I'd brought him directly into the lion's pit.

Nicole Sobon

#31. This relentless bonhomie of yours, I knew it would wear out in the end. It is a coin that has changed hands so often. And now the small silver is worn out and we see the base metal.

Hilary Mantel

#32. I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it.

Vivian Campbell

#33. When I was sixteen, I saw you and when I did, I was young, romantic, and it might sound stupid but the minute I saw you, I knew I wanted to give that to you. I knew it was only you. I waited thirteen years, honey. It was worth the wait.

Kristen Ashley

#34. The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.

Oren Peli

#35. Don't you get it Cat? You're the key. I knew it the day I laid eyes on you.

Amanda Bouchet

#36. I retired at twenty-nine, bought a life-time pass on American Airlines and my only goal in life was to party like a mad man and get drunk with as many people as possible. And I was happy right there. But when we started the streaming business, I knew it could be something big.

Mark Cuban

#37. Your mom's not that bad," said Jim. "Are you trying to make me mad?" "Okay she is." "I knew it. You've never liked her." "What's the right answer?" "So you're just telling me what I want to hear?" Jim reached over and put a hand on his wifes. "I love you.

Tim Dorsey

#38. In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)

Elizabeth Peters

#39. I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

Ozzy Osbourne

#40. I was dying. I knew it. At least the pain was gone. I wanted to tell him that I loved him. Then darkness overtook me ...

Colleen Houck

#41. I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

Janice Dickinson

#42. Caleb? I knew it wasn't likely, what with the

Molly Harper

#43. Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song, but I didn't know it would be so big.

Brandon Flowers

#44. You're mine. I knew it the first time I saw you. I will always come for you, Sara. Always.

Emme Rollins

#45. I knew it. I just knew it." We had been robbed after all.

Rebecca Stead

#46. I knew it was love because it was easy to talk about a load of bollocks and laugh until we hurt.

Lucy Robinson

#47. As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

Robert Darnton

#48. I breathed in and out, perfume and smoke, perfume and smoke, and we lay like that for a long time, until I heard the seagulls crying, sadder than a funeral, and I knew it was almost morning.

Judy Blundell

#49. But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

Ally Carter

#50. As soon as I read the script for Hannah Montana, I knew it kinda related to me. I wanted to disguise myself as not some celebrity's daughter, just be me and find people that like me for me.

Miley Cyrus

#51. I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

Davina McCall

#52. I've come home to you."
"H-home ... to me?"
"I knew it," Aunt Thea said. "It's him."
The strange man nodded. "It's me."
It's who?" Maddie blurted out.
... "Don't you know me, mo chridhe?

Tessa Dare

#53. Then he said, "Nice bed head," and I knew it was the real Spencer.

Catherine Clark

#54. Really, it's my fault. It was there. A hundred times there. How often did I see it? I knew. It kept happening. Over and over, you'd say you were through with him ... and over and over, I'd believe it ... no matter what my eyes showed me. No matter what my heart told me. My. Fault.

Richelle Mead

#55. J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are brilliant people, so I knew it [Westworld] was going to be amazing.

Evan Rachel Wood

#56. Then before I knew it, his considerable girth was inside me, stretching my virgin passage almost to the point of tearing, and he was thrusting into me as if he were trying to drive me completely through the mattress to the floor beneath.

Cristina Rayne

#57. I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [ ... ]
Instead he kissed me.

Richelle Mead

#58. I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk.

Tom Selleck

#59. I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.

Sergey Brin

#60. With every single kiss - he stole my breath and made it his, holding it captive. And I knew it then - that whatever we were meant to be - for however long time would allow it - it was going to be breathtakingly, heartbreakingly, beautiful.

Jay McLean

#61. I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

Karen Morley

#62. I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

Don Shula

#63. I want my own books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

David Levithan

#64. I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

George W. Bush

#65. While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.

Dan Hill

#66. I guess I knew it wasn't a game, but I ran anyway and I boosted myself up on the water spigot and poured through the window with the boneless grace of little kids.

Holly Black

#67. No, but ... " But I had felt something from another person. Someone who spent time with Alec. The last card in my head flipped over. "I know who it is. It's him. That guy."
"Of course," said Carter dryly. "I knew it was that guy. It's always that guy.

Richelle Mead

#68. I knew it was coming. That question. It was like he had a freaking daily quota to hit.

Ashlan Thomas

#69. I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

Ken Jennings

#70. I knew it wasn't fair, though, to ruin her time just because I miss everybody, so I just said good night and left.

Stephen Chbosky

#71. As charming as the room was, I knew it wouldn't work for me. I do not need charming. I need to be online, at all times. I need surge protection.

Augusten Burroughs

#72. When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

Bob Gibson

#73. But no, it's not the Ori I knew. It's an Ori I never knew. The Ori I made her into.

Nova Ren Suma

#74. To sail beyond the sunset ... I'd thought that beautiful, once. But now I knew it was a wasted effort, chasing sunsets. There was nothing on the other side.

Susanna Kearsley

#75. She said I didn't have to perform for her. She didn't have to say that. I knew it was true. Who else do you marry but the person who pulls you off the stage?

Donald Miller

#76. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.

Jack Kerouac

#77. I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn't matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didn't do any good to tell him not to cry because he needed to cry. That's the way he was.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#78. Through the years the swirl of a pen, click of a key, and the idea of a story have been my deepest passion. I never just decided to become a writer. I was born to be a writer. I knew it from childhood.

Sai Marie Johnson

#79. When I fell in love with you ... It was nothing like I'd ever known before. It was nearly instant. I think I started falling for you, the moment you shook my hand ... It was so powerful. I knew it was wrong, but it was addicting. - Jack Travis

Lisa Kleypas

#80. I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

Greg Smith

#81. But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Alicia Keys

#82. I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.

Daniela Bobadilla

#83. Honour looked so much like a child herself, confined to bed, a white nightgown, like one of those maudlin Victorian dolls. Her cheeks were red, like someone had painted them, but I knew it was from rubbing, wiping away her melancholy.

Ruth Ahmed

#84. What's left of what your body was - once the girl with bare shoulder blades , giggling, once the girl galloping an imaginary horse, once the girl sleeping in her sequined red dress - was now ash in a jar. Grains of bone. But then, I knew it wasn't you anymore. You were somewhere more.

Ava Dellaira

#85. When did I know I was in love? I knew it the moment I realized that even the smallest room seemed so vastly empty when she was not near me.

Steve Maraboli

#86. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom and Dad at bedtime. The same species maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#87. His mouth tilted and his eyes twinkled. I knew it. One look into yer eyes and I could fall at yet feet.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#88. Strange that I knew it would end this way. Not in battle, but in a dirty alley, alone, hiding among the filth like the coward I was.
My poetic ending.

Ashlan Thomas

#89. I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

Maureen Johnson

#90. I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

Kate Winslet

#91. I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.

Shimon Peres

#92. Chills crept up my back. It may seem like nothing to a normal person, but I wasn't normal. I was a spy. And it takes a lot for someone like me to get chills. The scariest part was that I knew it wasn't from the coolness of the morning. Something felt wrong today; I just couldn't figure out what.

Embee

#93. I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.

Brooke Fraser

#94. I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

Mark E. Smith

#95. I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was.

Portia De Rossi

#96. After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.

Chang-rae Lee

#97. When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.

Yoko Ono

#98. Do I dare ask him for what I want,
As if I knew it,
Could find it on some page
In some chapter
In some book?

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#99. It was so powerful. I knew it was wrong, but it was addicting.

S.C. Stephens

#100. Changed expression. Wariness, maybe. I felt a body move so close it was skimming my own, and a warm hand protectively settled at the base of my neck. Without turning I knew it was Ranger.

Janet Evanovich