Top 100 You Know When Quotes
#1. When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop?
Hanya Yanagihara
#2. Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell. You know, when I look at an Ann Coulter or I look at a Rush or I look at a Sean Hannity, I think to myself, 'What kind of self-image do you have?'
Al Franken
#3. You know, when you're part of a comedic duo, you can take breaks. It's kind of like having a partner that is good with a kid.
Robert Downey Jr.
#4. You know when I shoot with digital capture, I look for the mistake. When I shoot with film I embrace it.
Seal
#5. You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
Bill Vaughan
#6. You know, when I first met
you, in Idris, I had hopes - I had thought you would be like me. And when you were
nothing like me, I hated you. And then, when I was brought back, and Jace told me what
you did, I realized that I had been wrong. You are like me.
Cassandra Clare
#7. Edward Snowden gave a little press conference today. He is apparently seeking temporary asylum in Russia. Because, you know, when you're tired of the government snooping into everything you do, Putin's Russia is definitely the place you want to go.
Bill Maher
#8. You know, when people say 'nothing', that always means it's something. If people would just say something other than nothing, people wouldn't be as suspicious.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#9. How do you know when it's over?"
"Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.
Gunnar Ardelius
#10. What I've always loved about watching movies myself of course that's [Bas] Luhrmann. His Moulin Rouge! is incredible, his Romeo + Juliet. Wow. You know. When I saw those, those really were transformative films for me.
Fredrik Bond
#11. The surface below your feet is so special. It is not like a boxing ring, not like a wrestling mat, it's its own thing, and when I am there, I am floating, I am moving with total freedom, I am free. And when you know, when you just know you are going to win, like I do, there is no better feeling.
Conor McGregor
#12. Green tea?"
"You can't be serious."
The old woman nodded her approval. "I wasn't."
"Because you know when a cow chews grass? And he or she chews and chews and chews? Well, green tea tastes like French-kissing that cow after it's done chewing all that grass.
David Levithan
#13. Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?
Tom Spanbauer
#14. I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.
Jesse Williams
#15. You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
Brian De Palma
#16. And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
Ann Bancroft
#17. That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.
Lauren Oliver
#18. Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.
Johnny Galecki
#19. You know, when you see something from the inside, you see all the corruption.
Jeffrey Goldberg
#20. I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just having a social experience.
Adam Scott
#21. And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.
Lawrence Kasdan
#22. You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.
Linda Cardellini
#23. How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine did not sound as if he were joking.
Robert Jordan
#24. Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.
Nalini Singh
#25. You know, when a man is raped you never hear about what he was wearing.
George Takei
#26. How do you know when God is at the center of your life? When God is at the center, you worship. When he's not, you worry.
Rick Warren
#27. Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.
Adele Faber
#28. Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an envelope, you send it to a friend, and you want to know when they get it. It's like FedEx - they let you know when the package gets dropped off.
Evan Spiegel
#29. Kyle Davis is like malware. He's infiltrated my brain in a sneak virus attack. Every time I try and focus, he pops in my head the same way internet windows pop up faster than you can shut them down. You know when that happens you've opened something you shouldn't have.
Kate McCarthy
#30. If you define yourself by what you're running away from, then how do you know when you've arrived at where you're going to?
Julia Kent
#31. When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
#32. I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that ... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home ...
Spalding Gray
#33. Love is breathing heavily, it's clear she's never talked about this to anyone. You know when someone is opening up a so private, that there isn't a key.
Caroline Kepnes
#34. What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.
Steve Buscemi
#35. You know, when I was a kid, I was tricked into thinking that princesses wore tiaras and hosted tea parties. Now that I've met a real princess, I must say, I'm kind of disappointed.
Marissa Meyer
#36. Children change you. You have this overwhelming feeling of responsibility, of love - they're everything. They're yours. You know when you're cuddling them, cradling them, and you can smell their hair. I love that.
Philip Glenister
#37. Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.
Jen Hatmaker
#38. You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!
Donna Mills
#39. You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
Andy Griffith
#40. I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.
Dean Winters
#41. The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad ...
John Mayer
#42. I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.
Evelyn Glennie
#44. I was having a lot of mixed feelings about the independent world as well as the label world. I feel like I've been in the game a long time, and you know, when it come to labels not seeing a fella being around the last five years, it's like, it's hard to convince them what I can do.
Raekwon
#45. How do you know when a lead singer's knocking at your door?" he asked. "He can't find the key and doesn't know when to come in.
Kelly Oram
#46. It was very necessary I think 'cause you know, when the band's over, or at least in our heads, for a year it makes you really realize how lucky you are to be doing this and why piss in the well?
Jess Margera
#47. You know when I say that things happen in matches? Well, it just happened there.
Ron Atkinson
#48. People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because you're a comic is you'll think of better tags."
Jen Kirkman
#49. You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
Christine Lagarde
#50. You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
Richie Sambora
#51. You know when two people are right together when wanting the other person keeps you awake at night.
Abby Gaines
#52. Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#53. One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?
John Bartholomew Gough
#54. You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.
Dennis Crowley
#55. You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan Perlis
#56. I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.
Ray Charles
#57. It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.
Petter Stordalen
#58. I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
Magic Johnson
#59. It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.
Will Chase
#60. You know when you're sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time ...
Steven Wright
#61. I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.
Ice-T
#62. You know when you meet someone so smart and cool that all their tastes and opinions seem like the correct ones? And you instantly think: those are my opinions now too!
Mindy Kaling
#63. You know, when I'm playing, I think of myself in front of the Wailing Wall with a saxophone in my hands, and I'm davening, I'm really telling it to the Wall.
Stan Getz
#64. I can't watch 'Titanic' without breaking down within the first 10 minutes. You know, when it got re-released in 3D, I went to see it again. My mom came to pick me up from the cinema, and I was just bawling my eyes out.
Sophie Turner
#65. Do you ever get the urge to get in your car and keep driving?" I ask, focused on the water shimmering in the light of the moon.
"How'd you know when to stop?" Cole challenged, sitting next to me so our arms barely touched.
"I guess when you find something worth stopping for.
Rebecca Donovan
#66. You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive
Ripley Patton
#67. Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
Anton Chekhov
#68. As long as I've got a book, it doesn't matter where I am. I can instantly be a million miles away, in a completely different place, on a different planet even. I can be someone else, you know? When it gets too complicated to be myself.
Suzanne Brockmann
#69. I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.
Joe Manchin
#70. Ludicrous concepts ... like the whole idea of a war on terrorism. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?
Terry Jones
#71. As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
George Takei
#72. You know when you bring your voice to different voiceover things like video games and cartoons, and I do tons of stuff like that in voiceovers and whatnot, it's very fun and freeing.
Benito Martinez
#73. You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
Carly Simon
#74. This is really bad to admit but, you know, when you put your name in Google to see how many credits it's got by your name or something. So you put in 'Dolly Wells' and suddenly it goes 'Dolly Wells Feet' or something.
Dolly Wells
#75. I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that ... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.
David Morrissey
#76. You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it away.
Damien Rice
#77. There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.
Sebastiao Salgado
#78. For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
Paula Abdul
#79. You know when people can get excited over the ordinary things in life, they live
Harry Truman
#80. When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
Doris Lessing
#81. In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?
Jackson Pollock
#82. She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
#83. Staying healthy is about really listening to your mind and body. They will both let you know when you're doing things the right way for you. And when you're not. You just need to be honest with yourself and listen to what they're saying.
Adam Rodriguez
#84. Just so you know, when they say "Once upon
a time" ... they're lying
Jodi Picoult
#85. You know when he takes your hand and puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever really wanted." Embarrassingly enough, it was true.
Kiera Cass
#87. You know what my drink is? Jack Daniel's. Yes, that is a wild man drink. That should come with bail money, you know what I'm saying? Because on Jack, you don't know where you're going to end up, but you know when you get there, you won't be wearing any pants.
Dave Attell
#88. Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.
Eva Simons
#89. I haven't been that happy since I became conscious for the first time, you know, when I became aware of myself and got so uncomfortable and everything.
Susan Juby
#90. You know when you play in the big away games that the fans are going to be behind their team and will be booing you. As a professional you need to tune yourself out of that part of the game and concentrate on the job at hand.
David Beckham
#91. Education gives you the ability to know it. Intelligence gives you the capacity to fix it. Wisdom lets you know when to do it.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#92. Once I asked my dad how you know when you're in love. He said you just know, and that if you have to ask the question then you haven't been in love yet. And he's right. Because there aren't words for this. No combination of letters could ever represent what she is to me.
Mindy McGinnis
#93. You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
Rachel McAdams
#94. You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
Lillian Gish
#95. It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
Zack Snyder
#96. One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times ... You know ... when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#97. Because you're worried, Bear. And it makes me nervous. You know when you worry, I worry. It's just something we do.
T.J. Klune
#98. I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.
Geraldo Rivera
#99. I don't know ... just a feeling, like in ... " Xander thought for a moment. "Star Wars. You know, when Han Solo says, 'I've got a bad feeling about this'?
Robert Liparulo
#100. On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
Rachel Sklar
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