Top 100 Want To Know Quotes
#2. You want to know," I corrected. "The problem with that is you can't ever un-know something. If I tell you, and you don't like what I have to say, I can't take it back ...
Shay Savage
#3. I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.
Martha Stewart
#4. I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.
(Nero Wolfe)
Rex Stout
#5. This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.
Jodi Picoult
#6. She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why ... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.
Ray Bradbury
#7. Betting against the point spread is a relatively mechanical trip, but betting against another individual can be very complex, if you're serious about it - because you want to know, for starters, whether you're betting against a fool or a wizard, or maybe against somebody who's just playing the fool.
Hunter S. Thompson
#8. Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.
Donna VanLiere
#9. If you want to know how the heart is related to the soul, love someone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
F.B. Meyer
#11. However, if you want to know how people would like to be treated, it's more helpful to look at how they themselves act than what they say.
Gretchen Rubin
#12. People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.
Frederick Lenz
#13. I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.
Lisa Unger
#14. I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.
Jack Nicholson
#15. I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
Aaron Levie
#16. I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.
Phil Roe
#17. That's tough, Joan," I said, picking up my book. "Because I don't like you. You make me puke, if you want to know.
Sylvia Plath
#18. Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.
Muhammad Ali
#19. I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know.
Daniel Kehlmann
#20. It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.
Brenton Thwaites
#21. Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
Sarah Dessen
#22. As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.
Chris Van Hollen
#23. If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
Giannina Braschi
#24. Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn't want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.
Gabourey Sidibe
#25. If you REALLY want to know what another person is like, notice how he or she treats the less fortunate or those without position or title.
Steve Shallenberger
#26. You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.
Hasan M. Elahi
#27. Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
Melina Marchetta
#28. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen
#29. Provenance is something very important in jewelry. You want to know who has worn a piece of jewelry and who it has belonged to - it's part of its history, part of its aura.
Simon De Pury
#30. We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
Sue Johanson
#31. To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby ...
Conrad Williams
#32. If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for TV, I'll ask myself, 'Is it a show that I'd watch?' If it's a play or movie, I'll want to know if there's a good director attached.
Gbenga Akinnagbe
#33. There are things you don't want to know you can do
Robin McKinley
#34. Ty pointed his beer at Josh. "Want to know what I think?"
"No," Josh said.
"I think you have a case of being a little girl. Maybe you should prescribe yourself a heavy dose of man-the-fuck-up.
Jill Shalvis
#35. People do want to know the personal things. How far is too far to go with personal lives?
Mary Hart
#36. I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
Sybil Thorndike
#37. Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.
Esme Raji Codell
#38. It's a combination, I think they want to know - it's for every show, which is I think networks want to know that you have a vision for where the show could go to make sure that it really is a show, that it's not just a one-off forty minute pilot, that it's an actual series.
Bryan Burk
#39. In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?
R.C. Sproul
#40. You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.
Yaa Gyasi
#41. A company is people ... employees want to know ... am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.
Richard Branson
#42. I've always tried to be an actor who ... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives ... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.
Michael Gambon
#43. That's something we all want to know, isn't it? Is there a "purpose" to our form and substance? Or are we simply the random result of billions of years of chemical reactions and accidents influenced by pressures from the environment? ... "
-Jules, BOOM
Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
#44. After I got shot, you want to know the very first thing that entered my mind? The U.S. Mint. I am coin in the U.S. Army. Now, I have two small holes in me. I'm no longer perfectly culled. Do you want to know the very last thing that entered my mind, You.
Nicholas Sparks
#45. I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don't want to know the time when I'll have to come to the studio even earlier.
Grace Kelly
#46. She was this girl I once knew. Took my breath away, she was so pretty. Took my heart, if you want to know the truth. I was kind of angry about it at the time.
Christy Hayes
#47. I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#48. Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?
Roddy Piper
#49. I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
George Smoot
#50. You want to know what it's like to emigrate to Saturn system? Imagine spending six years in a straitjacket tied to the outside of a skyscraper, with only a couple dozen similar lunatics for company.
Charles Stross
#51. No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
Orrin Hatch
#53. Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
Andrea Gibson
#54. I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.
Stephen Wolfram
#56. I like you."
"That's tough, Joan," I said, picking up my book. "Because I don't like you. You make me puke, if you want to know."
And I walked out of the room, leaving Joan lying, lumpy as an old horse, across my bed.
Sylvia Plath
#57. When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.
Michiel Huisman
#58. Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.
Raymond E. Feist
#59. I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable.
Ellen Hopkins
#60. How can you be so sure?" Lenk asked. "That there's no plan?" "Because," Mocca said as he eyed the bottle, "I can't imagine any God would be boring enough to want to know how everything ends.
Sam Sykes
#61. There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.
Jodi Picoult
#62. I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.
Dwyane Wade
#63. So I guess this means Domme Isa will be retired for a while until he feels satiated. But I'll be damned if she'll be retired forever. I want to know the real Dylan because apparently I've only been fucking his representative.
Ella Dominguez
#64. Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
#65. Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.
Stephen King
#66. There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
Chuck Palahniuk
#67. I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.
Jason Statham
#68. Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#69. The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.
Bohdi Sanders
#70. Do I want to know where I came from? Yes. But that doesn't impact who I want to be.
Karen White
#71. If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#72. The Scientific Revolution proposed a very different formula for knowledge: Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics. If we want to know the answer to some question, we need to gather relevant empirical data, and then use mathematical tools to analyse the data. For
Yuval Noah Harari
#73. The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?
Jeff Garvin
#74. I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
Adam Levine
#75. Readers want to know a few things right up front, like what the weather is like and the lay of the land, the color of that lake, or the steep pitch of that steeple. Now whether or not these things have one iota to do with your story doesn't concern the reader.
Ron Rozelle
#76. I am not an idiot. It's just that sometimes there are things that I don't want to know.
Alice Hoffman
#77. If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.
Robert Redford
#78. I will give you anything to say you want to stay, you want me too.
Say you'll never die, you'll always haunt me.
I want to know I belong to you
Say you'll haunt me ...
Stone Sour
#79. I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.
Misty Copeland
#80. Want to know a Secret? Someone out there can't stop thinking about you.You are Beautiful. Don't ever believe differently.
Drake
#81. I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age.
Ashley Ormon
#82. I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.
M. Scott Peck
#83. Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Aldous Huxley
#84. Why don't you want to know that I like you, Rowen? Why don't you want me to tell you I'm so damn attracted to you, I almost don't trust myself to be alone with you like we are right now? Why don't you want to know that I care about you so much ... ?
Nicole Williams
#85. I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They really just want to know about it. They're all fans of Kubrick.
Vinessa Shaw
#87. They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises.
William Gaddis
#88. Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith Wharton
#89. I don't want spaghetti. I want to know what a Magnus Bane is.
Cassandra Clare
#91. You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
Andy Rooney
#92. You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.
Lewis Black
#93. You want to know my sweet?" I ask her.
She nods.
I kiss her on the forehead. "You. Always you.
Colleen Hoover
#94. You want to know about a good man? Man is the one who can carry the home and the family and have the strength to keep that weight going; woman is that which can nurture and nurse and be herself and can keep her radiance and have the strength of that.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#95. My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it.
Steven Wright
#96. If you really want to know about life, just take time and listen to what the dying say.
Gabriel Lawson
#97. People aren't interested in the truth, Dafar. They're interested in what keeps them safe. They're interested in being looked after. They're interested in a tale being spun ... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.
Melina Marchetta
#98. If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.
Molly Friedenfeld
#99. My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone's hiding something.
Gabrielle Zevin
#100. George Loewenstein of Carnegie Mellon provides one of the simplest definitions of curiosity: the feeling of deprivation that comes from an information gap between what we know and what we want to know. Separately,
Philip Kotler
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