“People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantImportantBookReadingNovelKnow HowHappened Author:Alison Bechdel
“I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.” PeopleKnowsPersonsRoomsClassKnow HowHappenedClown Author:Janeane Garofalo
“I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensFunKnow HowHappenedTaughtTerribleDecidedArmyTheaterIllnessRoughLiving My LifeKoreaElderlyI Live My LifeClose To Death Author:Michael Caine
“One admirable trait in women is their lack of illusions about themselves. They never reason about their most blameworthy actions; their feelings carry them away. Even their dissimulation comes naturally to them, and in them crime is free of all baseness. Most of the time they simply do not know how it happened.” KnowsReasonFeelingsActionWomenKnow HowHappenedCrimeIllusionTraitsAdmirableBaseness Author:Honore de Balzac
“I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.” KnowsWayStillsMovingUsedSimpleKnow HowHappenedRocksFrontsBandLoudRock Bands Author:Janis Joplin
“I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened to watch this on Netflix. I hope you're feeling better. More power to you." It just shows you, I don't know, how generous and wonderful people can be.” PeopleKnowsShowsFeelingsWatchesKnow HowWonderfulHappenedHeardGenerousFeel BetterEmailNetflix Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.” ThinkingKnowsYearsCitiesKnow HowHappenedSixLosingPercentVoteSevenSeatsGet OverCouncilSeven YearsCity Council Author:Tom Hayden
“(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the records of the pitchers who gave them up. George Orwell said that in totalitarian societies, yesterday's weather could be changed by decree. Baseball, indeed America, is not like that. Besides, the people who care about the record book - serious fans - will know how to read it. That may be Bonds' biggest worry.” PeopleKnowsMaySaidBookCareAmericaWorryKnow HowRecordsHappenedFansChangedSeriousBaseballYesterdayWeatherWho CaresPitcherEraseDecreeWell SaidDiscrepanciesBookkeeping Author:George Will
“The no-hitter was the highlight of my career. The specialness of it, I didn't know how lasting it would be when it happened. Everywhere I go, people talk about that game, how exciting it was. That makes me very proud. I'm awfully happy that a ball didn't bloop in somewhere.” PeopleKnowsWould BeGamesCareersKnow HowHappenedProudBallsExcitingLastingHighlightsSpecialness Author:Jim Abbott
“I don't know how to make magic. For most songwriter's that has only happened once or twice, and I don't know how to re-create that. I know that there are some tricks and tools, but the magic is the amazing part.” KnowsKnow HowHappenedMagicToolsTricksSongwriters Author:Tyler Hilton
“I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.” KnowsLittlesUsedActingKnow HowHappenedMomMy MomHonestlyCrashAuditionsStrollers Author:Bailee Madison
“When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."” PeopleKnowsWantShowsBrainKnow HowHappenedMagicStageLike YouHatsFascinatedMagicianRabbitsAttending Author:Gaspar Noe
“How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.” KnowsAcceptingKnow HowHappenedAmountSlipsGarbageNourishmentKimHepburnAudrey Author:Laura Benanti
“I was worried a bit at the beginning because I didn't know how the situation was. Once the ATP wanted to do the tournament, I realised there was no risk at all. I'm very sorry about what happened. It's not easy to be here knowing so many people were killed very near from here.” PeopleKnowsWantedEasyBitsSituationKnow HowKnowingRiskHappenedSorryWorriedRealisedTournaments Author:Carlos Moya
“The best thing that could've happened to me was that I learned a lot in Vegas, but I didn't know how to implement it. Whenever I came to Texas, all we had was Marc Laimon, jiu-jitsu coach. We didn't have a striking coach. So me and him started to just develop our own game, because he knows nothing about striking. We sat down and we sort of found my style. I think that was the best thing that could've happened to me.” ThinkingKnowsFoundGamesKnow HowHappenedStyleDown AndCoachesBest ThingsSatTexasVegasJiu Jitsu Author:Johny Hendricks
“I have had a very charmed life. I look at what's happened in my life, and I feel so lucky. I don't know how it occurred. I didn't plan it, but I got to be with my family when I needed to be with my family. I got to go and travel the world, doing these amazing projects, and I feel like I'm so privileged and grateful.” KnowsWorldFeelsLooksKnow HowPlansHappenedNeededLuckyProjectsMy FamilyGratefulPrivilegedTravel The WorldSo LuckyCharmedCharmed Life Author:Kristin Kreuk
“It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit - I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.” IfsKnowsWantLittlesDreamSongWhiteKnow HowHappenedSuitsJacketsSunnyBalladsTrousersVery RomanticCorduroy Book:Lennon Remembers Source: Lennon Remembers
“Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.” KnowsWorldTryingKindPersonsDoeMomentsTogetherFilmFacesSongThreeLinesForgetKnow HowHappenedMinutesKissingPhotographPoetry IsNever ForgetPortraitsChanging Your LifeForget ItSlapBrevity Author:Warsan Shire
“I always knew I was going to leave the Midwest but didn't really know how the opportunity would present itself. When it happened, I was like, "Yes, okay right now, I'm coming. Goodbye!"” KnowsOpportunityKnow HowHappenedRight NowOkayGoodbyeMidwest Author:Ashley Hinshaw
“So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course, is now that we've had well over 100 years of this history to establish separate cultures, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of understanding theology so that when people try to come together makes it very difficult. And then, of course, social networks, you know, how do we find a place to worship?” PeopleKnowsWayTryingYearsWellsDifferentWarTogetherCultureCoursesSocialDifficultUnderstandingKnow HowHappenedWorshipTheologyDifferent WaysCivil WarSocial NetworkCongregationDenominationsWar Time Author:Michael Emerson