Top 100 They Have No Idea Quotes
#1. I don't like psychiatrists," Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing.
Rebecca McNutt
#2. And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter how old or young, has some lesson they want to teach. And I sit there and listen and learn all about life from people who have no idea how to live it.
Paul Neilan
#3. I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.
Lou Reed
#4. I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring ... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having ... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.
Jacqueline Carey
#5. You have no idea how difficult it was trying to listen to a single word you said today when all I could think about was how soft they are. How incredible they taste. How perfect they fit between mine.
Colleen Hoover
#6. I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.
Daniel Tosh
#7. It was a brilliant idea: You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. It
Richard Feynman
#8. They have no idea how deep this goes for me. To them it's a tremor, not an earthquake.
Lilah Pace
#9. As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to be shot down. You just put it in the garbage later. You have to say the lines in many different ways. So they have a lot of material to work.
Antonio Banderas
#10. You can't tell. That's something I'm learning here in N.Y.C: you have no fucking idea what people are really like. They're not even two-faced
they're, like, multiple personalities.
Jennifer Egan
#11. I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'
John Niven
#12. A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
Jack Nicklaus
#13. When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#14. I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.
Boots Riley
#15. Perspective is a law of optics ... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.
David Hockney
#16. A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.
Wilhelm Keitel
#17. I can always tell when you're thinking about food. You forget to be the Serious Wolf and you get this dreamy look in your eyes. You know, most people would think you were thinking about a girl. They have no idea that her name is bacon.
Ilona Andrews
#18. If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.
Alice Walker
#19. Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.
Helen Thomas
#20. I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.
George Carlin
#21. Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
G. Willow Wilson
#22. At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.
John D. MacDonald
#23. I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.
Isabel Allende
#24. We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
Billy Al Bengston
#25. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself.
Henry Rollins
#26. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.' So it's harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.
Denis Leary
#27. Perhaps she did now, in this foreign country, because it was November here too or because she sensed how vulnerable people are when they have no idea what to do next, how to move forward or back.
Gerbrand Bakker
#28. Even Arnold's adviser says he was shocked by his decision to run. I mean, his people were backstage that night and they had no idea. He totally fooled them. Who knew Arnold was that good of an actor? If he had done that in a movie, he'd have an Academy Award by now.
Jay Leno
#29. Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is TRUE TO LIFE unless it is true to the WORST IN LIFE, that the idea has infected even the women.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#30. Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.
Bernie Sanders
#31. My goal
and this is kind of my own little secret
but when I get married, just to head out and finish football and, and, and be a missionary around the world. Places where Steve Young
not that it's big really that many places
but places where they have no idea about football.
Steve Young
#32. I wonder why some people seem to be born knowing what they want to do with their lives and others - mostly me - have no idea.
Kasie West
#33. When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you.
Lionel Suggs
#34. you've no idea of the agony of having your characters taken and made to say things that they never would have said, and do things that they never would have done. And if you protest, all they say is that it's 'good theatre.
Agatha Christie
#35. Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.
Zig Ziglar
#36. Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.
Clive James
#37. The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
V.S. Naipaul
#38. I have a lot of awards in my house that I have absolutely no idea what they are for.
Tim Conway
#39. People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.
Rohit Sharma
#40. I have had to learn the hard way that the people who you think love you unconditionally, actually only love the idea of you and when you fall from grace, they no longer want you.
Ameera Al Hakawati
#41. The American people thoroughly despise and hate their newspapers; yet they seem to have no idea what to do about it, and take it for granted that they must go on reading falsehoods for the balance of their days!
Upton Sinclair
#42. Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That's a more fruitful way to be.
Mary Karr
#43. Its easy to have kids, people try to scare you into thinking "oh its hard to have kids" Its not. I have two, and I have no idea where they are right now. Kids are adorable, someone will always take care of them.
Dan Cummins
#44. For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.
Anthony M. Esolen
#45. Begin laughing too, though they have no idea why. Which
Richard Russo
#47. There's always that feeling of 'Oh, God! One day they'll find out that I really have no idea what I'm doing.
Samantha Mathis
#48. As a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, I know they have fallen in love with my mind. Having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. Art may be the only place a woman can be whole without being seen.
Nayyirah Waheed
#49. People have no idea of the things that don't happen to them - the lives they're not living, the deaths stalking them - and thank Christ for that. Hard enough to get through each day without glimpsing all the hovering possibilities, like insects thickening the air.
Emma Donoghue
#50. Misconceptions are like cockroaches: you have no idea where they came from, but they're everywhere - often where you don't expect them - and they're impervious to nuclear weapons.
Alex Reinhart
#51. We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.
Marion Nestle
#52. I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.
Charles Krauthammer
#53. Many of us have pain, regrets, and disappointments buried so far deep down inside ourselves, we have no idea they're there or how they're manifesting in our everyday lives.
Rebecca Rosen
#54. Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend.
John Avery
#55. You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting ... you.
Chuck Palahniuk
#56. Whether people are in your shoes or they have no idea at all what it's like, no one has the right to judge you. No one.
Karina Halle
#57. It's a little weird that they keep walking around sniffing things. Think I'll do that eventually?"
"I have no idea. At least they aren't chewing on the furniture.
Nichole Chase
#58. People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
Brian D. McLaren
#59. You don't have to be a college graduate to murder someone." "Thank you for making the jury aware of that, Lieutenant. I'm sure they had no idea.
David Rosenfelt
#60. It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.
Avery Sawyer
#61. Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#62. How dare you make such suggestions when you have no idea what it is you're talking about. Of course you've always been this way; conceited, arrogant, rude to others around you when they don't match up to your ridiculously.." high standards...
Madeline Courtney
#63. Their [Republicans] approach to a woman's body is the same as their approach to the economy: they have no idea how it works, but they're eager to screw with it anyway.
Bill Maher
#64. Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
William Ralph Inge
#65. Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.
Suzanne Fields
#66. On my first TV job I didn't have a clue. They'd tell me to hit my mark and I had no idea what they meant. You just pick it up. And ultimately, all it's really about is pretending to be someone else.
Sheridan Smith
#67. The Kathmandese have a wonderful custom of saving a part of every meal and placing it on the street for the street dogs. The idea seems to be that, if they have enough to eat, then no one, not even the stray dogs, should starve. Stray
Vernon Ken
#68. Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar gave me this awesome luggage freshener with a clock attached!" Federal regulations require them to have no idea you're joking as they riddle your body with bullets.
Seanbaby
#69. I have no idea why gay men love me, but I would have to assume it's because they know how much I love the gays! Everyone needs a good gay man in their life.
Chelsea Handler
#70. This is love with legs.' My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you're blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, 'love with legs.'" A wide smile spread across her face. "Every day he'd climb out
Charles Martin
#71. Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.
Paul Craig Roberts
#72. The people in New York have no idea what they're doing.
Larry Bowa
#73. It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.
Barbara Demick
#74. I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.
Rebecca De Mornay
#75. Did you know everyone thinks that one day they might be a millionaire? Like that's a lot of money. They have no idea. They don't want to be a superhero. They just want to be like me.
Anonymous
#76. And they have been raised to expect so little of men that the idea of men as savage beings with no self-control is somehow acceptable. We
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#77. Kids have no idea when they're drinking soda what they're really drinking, and a lot of them are stunned when they learn that drinking a Big Gulp is like taking a big jar of sugar and just pouring it down. There are 50 teaspoons of sugar in a 64-ounce Big Gulp.
Eric Schlosser
#78. Marriage isn't easy, Andy," he says. "You love someone in a specific time and place. But you have no idea what they'll become. People change. Sometimes, they change so much you hardly even recognize them anymore." For
Matthew Norman
#79. After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
Jack Prelutsky
#80. You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
Anita Brookner
#81. People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
Ajahn Chah
#82. The jury had persuaded themselves that he was decent, because they had wanted to think that in his shoes they would have been decent too. They had no idea how decency, loyalty, courage, how it all shrivelled away when one was frightened.
Sarah Waters
#83. Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven't they read Twilight?
Kevin J. Anderson
#84. Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.
Anonymous
#85. Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#86. I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself
like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
Whitney Houston
#87. In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
Bill Murray
#88. most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.
Og Mandino
#89. When preparing a document, most people have a pretty good idea of what they intend to write about but no specific plan for what to say or how to phrase it.
Blinkist
#90. Everything is going to be fine.
I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what's coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking.
Jenny Valentine
#91. THERE'S SOMETHING TERRIBLY intimate about watching a person sleep. To watch them when they have no idea you are doing it. It's an invasion of the highest form to gaze upon someone when they are unable to hide, or put a wall up, to protect whatever scars or vulnerabilities they might have.
Carian Cole
#92. I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.
John Cleese
#93. Let's put it this way. The United States government has assembled a massive investigation team into me personally, into my work with the journalists, and they still have no idea what documents were provided to the journalist, what they have, what they don't have, because encryption works.
Edward Snowden
#94. But it's too late, I'm sorry. Now I have no idea how things begin, nor how to know that they are safe, nor how to show strangers we are safe too.
Sara Baume
#95. It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
Bill Watterson
#96. Trust me, never mock a romance book," said Mal with all the zest of a manic street preacher. "You have no idea the amount of good they can do for you between the sheets and on the streets. If you love you girl? Buy her books.
Kylie Scott
#97. I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
Daniel Craig
#98. Dedicated to readers like Penryn who have it tough at home, who had to grow up fast due to life circumstances, and who have no idea how much potential they really have. You are being fire forged, just like Penryn. And like her, you can turn your greatest trials into your greatest strengths.
Susan Ee
#99. I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
Kate Mara
#100. Space garbage," he answers like it's obvious. "The sky's always falling. Always. You'll see. People have no idea."
No people don't, because they're not revolutionaries like us.
Jandy Nelson
