I Quotes
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“I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.”
“I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.”
“I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.”
“I didn't know people had that much water in them!”
“I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.”
“I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.”
“I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without...needing space." Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her. "There's no air in space," he said.”
“I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.”
“I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.”
“I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.”
“I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.”
“I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”
“I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.”
“I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.”
“I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.”
Source: The Lock Artist: A Novel
“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.”
“I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.”
“I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.”
“I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.”
“I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.”
“I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!”
“I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.”
Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
“I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.”
Source: My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke
“I didn't know the Bible said anything about money. Twenty percent of what Christ talked about was money. You think about it - so does God. Think you need it - God knows it. ... The principles of Jesus Christ create your prosperity.”
“I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited.”
“I didn't know the comic at all, which is really funny because I grew up here and I had friends who worked at all of the places. Like The Beguiling, which is a store here, and Suspect Video and one of my friends actually worked at Suspect and The Beguiling. So it's kind of crazy that I'd never known the books before.”
“I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.”
“I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.”
“I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.”
Source: So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away
“I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.”
“I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.”
Source: 20th Century Ghosts
“I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.”
“I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.”
Source: Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties
“I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.”
“I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.”
“I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.”
“I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does”
“I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.”
“I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.”
Source: Galapagos: A Novel
“I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.”
“I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.”
“I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.”
“I didn't know there was something really wrong, because everyone was crazy. It's just that everyone else was still functional. I didn't realize that I was any worse off.”
“I didn't know there were 2 ten o'clocks in a day.”
“I didn't know there were at least as many terrible independent movies as there are big-budget ones. Like, every single year. And bad in a worse way, too. They're just parodies of themselves sometimes.”
“I didn't know there were so many ghosts in [New] York.”
“I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.”
Source: Heist Society
“I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.”
Source: Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files
“I didn't know what a Rolex cost to be honest. I'm a Seiko and Timex guy, and always have been.”