Top 100 You Didn't Know Quotes
#1. That way you can be certain to learn something you didn't know previously.
Bill Gates
#2. There's nothing quite like the glorious serendipity of finding a book you didn't know you wanted to read.
Neil Gaiman
#3. He compared the intelligence task to solving a jigsaw puzzle, except that you didn't get the box cover, so you didn't know what the final picture was. And you got only a few pieces at a time, not all of them. And even worse, you always got a bunch of pieces from some other puzzle thrown in.
P. W. Singer
#5. Nothing," he said. "Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn't know my name and barely knew my face.
Sherry Thomas
#7. At first i thought you were one of the human students, when you'd told me about your parents i thought they'd killed your real parents and adopted you. I figured you didn't know what you really were
Claudia Gray
#8. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
#9. Sitting here, beneath this majestic oak tree under the hot afternoon sun in the middle of nowhere, the concept of time, present, and future, were all blurred. What was time if you didn't know whether you had it?
When you weren't sure what you had to live for? - Skylla Warden
Rachael Wade
#10. Our whole role in life is to give you something you didn't know you wanted. And then once you get it, you can't imagine your life without it. And you can count on Apple doing that.
Tim Cook
#11. When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.
Christine Sinclair
#12. I loved you and you didn't know. I loved you and that was enough.
Rachel Joyce
#13. I was your lover Liam, but never your partner. I won't settle for that, not even for you. You had my heart in your hands, and you didn't know what to do with it. I can tell you, without the crystal ball, without the gift, you will never have another like it.
Nora Roberts
#14. Darlin', I'm settling. What you didn't know, what I was keepin' back 'til the right time, that time bein' now, was, I'm doin' it with you.
Kristen Ashley
#15. If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
Karen Black
#16. Then, you were always captivated by self-sacrifice. However admirable, your eagerness to give your life over to another person may have been due in some measure to the fact that when your life was wholly in your lap you didn't know what to do with it. Self-sacrifice was an easy way out.
Lionel Shriver
#17. Sometimes, when your back's against the wall, you can do things that you didn't know were possible.
Lisa De Jong
#18. You found you were saying yes when you meant no, and "We've got to be together in this thing" when you meant the very opposite ... and then you were face to face, in total darkness, with the knowledge that you didn't know who you were. And how could anyone else be blamed for that?
Richard Yates
#19. Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.
Maya Angelou
#20. On your 60th, here's something philosophical
To give the old grey matter a stir
How old would you be
If you didn't know how old you were?
John Walter Bratton
#21. that you didn't know what to do except smash your face into hers, back when kissing was not a signpost along the way but rather the destination itself.
Nathan Hill
#22. I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.
Brendan Gleeson
#23. Have you ever felt like you were searching for something, only you didn't know what it was until you found it?
Lindy Zart
#24. In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.
Amy Efaw
#25. You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.
Landon Curt Noll
#26. You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Napoleon Hill
#27. School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.
Dave Kellett
#28. I think of Twitter as a messaging system that you didn't know you needed until you had it. Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, "Why would I carry my phone around?" And now you'll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.
Biz Stone
#29. Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.
Antonio Banderas
#30. Next time I fall in love it's going to be with someone who isn't an expert in fibbing."
"You're in love with me?"
"You didn't know that?"
"I did, but it's nice to hear."
"Scares the hell out of me.
Janet Evanovich
#31. Cause getting your dreams
It's strange, but it seems
A little
well
complicated
There's a kind of a sort of : cost
There's a couple of things get : lost
There are bridges you cross
You didn't know you crossed
Until you've crossed.
Stephen Schwartz
#32. If you didn't know, you wouldn't take him for part-ghost - but you'd know he wanted to be somewhere else.
China Mieville
#33. People didn't seem to get it. Understand that it wasn't that you didn't want to talk to them about something, it was more that you didn't know how. Sometimes putting feelings into words was really hard to do.
Natalie Gayle
#34. When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.
Tom Lehman
#35. Suppose you didn't know him, would that make any difference?'
'No,' said Willie, after thinking a little. 'Other people would know
him if I didn't.'
'Yes, and if nobody knew him, God would know him, and anybody God has
thought worth making, it's an honor to do anything for.
George MacDonald
#36. Stanley:
Delicate piece she is.
Stella:
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.
Tennessee Williams
#37. That box contains the 'something' that was inside you. You didn't know that when you carried it here and gave it to Keiko with your own hands. Now you'll never get it back.
Haruki Murakami
#38. You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.
Ashton Kutcher
#39. It's like hearing a song for the first time and being struck by it, haunted by it, wanting to hunt it down and catch it, because the song sums up something you didn't know you wanted to say, giving you chills and goose bumps.
Kirsty Eagar
#40. Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined.
Anita Shreve
#41. Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know.
Ethan Zuckerman
#42. You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure ...
John Updike
#43. Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.
Andrew Sturm
#44. Funny how it works out though that when you expect nothing from a person, they might just give you everything you didn't know you wanted.
Jamie Kain
#45. You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.
Orson Scott Card
#46. That's because you loved me. You just didn't know it yet."
"You didn't know it either. You were just as blind as me.
Jessica Sorensen
#47. It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
T.D. Jakes
#48. When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.
Kate Langley Bosher
#49. I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
Kate Atkinson
#50. You ever get sick and one of your friends gives you medical advice? And they tell you that they're not a doctor - like you didn't know it?
Dom Irrera
#51. Don't discount that part of who he was just because you didn't know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.
John Scalzi
#52. My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!
You didn't know it then-you know it now.
Oscar Wilde
#53. Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.
Roger Verge
#54. Instead, he cleared his throat, removed himself from Avery's hold and tucked himself back inside his slacks, trying to find some control. It was a monumental experience to have finally given your heart away so freely, especially to someone you didn't know. The whole experience unnerved Kane.
Kindle Alexander
#55. If you left off traditions because you didn't know why they started you'd be no better than a foreigner.
Terry Pratchett
#56. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
Joseph Campbell
#57. She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.
Ann Brashares
#58. You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
Keith Richards
#59. Living your life with honor
Brings forth friends
You didn't know you had
Frank Julius
#60. The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.
Ryan C. Gordon
#61. You didn't know how to live under my light? I don't have a light anymore unless you're there.
Kristen Callihan
#62. The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.
You are deciding your life right now.
Meg Ray
#63. In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.
Curtis Armstrong
#64. Wasnt it more important to be loyal to what was right or to those people you knew and cared about? What was the good of killing people or being hateful to them because someone you didn't know was doing something hateful to someone ekse you didn't know?
Janet Lunn
#65. You're a nice boy," she chuckled harshly. "You must come round here one evening. I'll teach you something you didn't know before.
Christopher Isherwood
#66. I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
Carol Ann Duffy
#68. I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck.
Randy Moss
#69. You didn't know if you could, but you made it another day, didn't you?
Mia Sheridan
#70. I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"
Michael J. Fox
#71. Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn't know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there were gaps which language could cover over as long as you had acquired the know-how.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#72. The way the leaves on the trees tremble in the passing air is the way love reaches you, from all directions at once, mysterious, overwhelming, indescribable. To be in love is to find something you didn't know was missing.
Chloe Thurlow
#74. In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.
Paul Gigot
#75. Oy, prince," Puck circled back, frowning. "What are you doing? If you didn't know already, the old chicken plucker is on her way, and she's gunning for Winter and Summer stew.
Julie Kagawa
#76. it was easier to live without
something you've never had, because you didn't know what you were missing, but once you've had
something it was difficult giving it up.
Cora Reilly
#77. A baby fills a hole in your heart that you didn't know was there.
Trista Sutter
#78. Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
Michael Crichton
#79. Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before and write them down somewhere else.
Douglas Wilson
#80. One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
Jane Hirshfield
#81. Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.
Deborah Mailman
#82. Of the 2,639,857 faggots in the New York city area, 2,639,857 think primarily with their cocks.
You didn't know that the cock was a thinking organ?
Well, by this time, you should know that it is.
Larry Kramer
#83. When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.
Mark Ronson
#84. 'Iron' Mike Tyson is the last boxer who was truly embraced by the media. They followed him around. You didn't know what he was going to do next: bite you, cut you, fight you. When you think about it, that defines him - it was an exciting adventure.
George Foreman
#85. Remember what I told you about your journey. You need to be fearless because every road you travel on will bring something about yourself that you didn't know or realize. Now it's up to you to take what you realized and find safety within yourself.
Sandi Lynn
#86. You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.
Iyanla Vanzant
#87. I miss the beginning stages when you didn't know what to expect. When everything was fresh, just experiencing it for the first time. That's something you can't buy with all the money in the world, that feeling.
Kurupt
#88. And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
Sam Donaldson
#89. Some people aren't comfortable with being comfortable. Some people really want to be pushed and find people that they can pull something out of you that you didn't know you had, and you can scare yourself.
Kristen Stewart
#90. You guys didn't try to do anything to me," I say honestly. "You brought me to a house because you wanted to freak me out. You didn't know that your friend would wind up getting torn in half and disemboweled.
Kendare Blake
#91. Sometimes, the smallest moments in your life have the greatest impact. They soar straight into a place deep inside you, and resonate with the very core of your heart, sinking deep into your memory, to remind you later, that life and love can bring you magic you didn't know existed.
Angela Richardson
#92. Why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.
Stephen Colbert
#93. As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.
Shahid Kapoor
#94. Sometimes you can look back on times in your life and know that God was guiding you even when you didn't know you were supposed to be listening.
Melanie Shankle
#95. It's a pity you didn't know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too.
Robb White
#96. Time didn't seem to matter when you didn't know who you were or where you belonged.
Jettie Woodruff
#97. Because you didn't know you had a choice." "What choice?" "To be angry or not." It was the silliest thing I'd ever heard. "That's not a choice." "Yes," she said. "It is.
Catherine M. Wilson
#98. She almost sounded sane ... If you didn't know that she was acting rational on the far side of crazy.
Rainbow Rowell
#99. Funny how they're corpses if you didn't know them, but bodies if you did.
Jason Heller
#100. The typical conservative Roman was far too practical for that. If you didn't know by age five that the gods were made-up creatures and the myths invented stories, then you were a fool.
Anne Rice
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