“If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.” IfsKnowsI CanPlayWholeFilmInterestWonderWatchesKnow HowSunMagicCreationPicksLibraryMagazinesMuseumsSun Set Author:Phylicia Rashad
“I know you're not supposed to have TV in your room, but I like watching a little. I need something mindless.” KnowsNeedsLittlesRoomsTvsMindlessYour Room Author:Rebecca Romijn
“When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.” PeopleKnowsDecisionGrownups Author:Rene Redzepi
“Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.” KnowsSometimesCharacterMovingYoungWaitingWaterWifeFrontsInstanceFarmsYardsMoving Away Author:Ron Rash
“But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.” KnowsYearsMayStatesHappensValuesGreaterFourCollegeEducationalRangeFour YearsAdmission Author:Roy Romer
“It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.” KnowsEndsHoursHalfWatchesKnow HowObviousTedious Author:Rudy Rucker
“You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.” KnowsLittlesStillsMotherBrotherLittle BrotherMy Little Brother Author:Sam Raimi
“When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.” PeopleKnowsWritingFirstsStoriesHandsSituationCenturyOriginalsFamiliarNineteenth Century Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews
“The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.” KnowsWorldTryingDangerousWeaponsIraqNuclearBombsDevicesNuclear WeaponsMissilesDangerous Things Author:Scott Ritter
“I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingDifferentShowsSeemsUniqueGenreDifferent Genres Author:Shawn Ryan
“One of the tricky things about running a TV show is that you just never know how good the guest stars you cast on a weekly basis, how good they're going to be in the episode. Sometimes they surprise you in good ways and sometimes they surprise you in disappointing ways.” KnowsWaySometimesShowsRunningStarsKnow HowTvsBasesSurpriseCastsGuestsEpisodesTv ShowsTrickyGood WayDisappointingGuest Stars Author:Shawn Ryan
“I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.” IfsKnowsKindI CanLinesActingKnowingEasierReactionsReacting Author:Stephen Root
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsShouldWaitingHalfLeaderStepsPlansLateInnovationCustomersConsumersToo LateBusiness LeadersGood Business Author:Stuart Rose
“Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.” PeopleKnowsAmericaEurope Author:Sun Ra
“The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.” PeopleKnowsMightActingMeetingsCool Things Author:Tania Raymonde
“Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.” KnowsGirlWalksEastFasterKnow MeCoastEast CoastGet To Know Me Author:Tara Reid
“Most people don't know how to tell stories.” PeopleKnowsStoriesKnow HowSproutsBrusselsBrussel Sprouts Author:Ted Rall
“The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.” KnowsWalksPiecesBarsBest ThingsApartmentCartoonist Author:Ted Rall
“I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.” KnowsLittlesMy OwnDealsEconomyGenerationsProgramWorriedKicksFuture GenerationDown The RoadHandouts Author:Todd Rokita
“When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.” IfsKnowsFeelsStillsI CanIdeasSongCan DoLinesTalkingHundredFinishedNo IdeaFifty Author:Trevor Rabin
“You don't have to make, you know, $3 Million dollars a movie, or $20 Million dollars a movie, but if you make a living doing what you love doing, then that's success to me.” IfsKnowsMillionsDollarsWhat You LoveMillion DollarsDoing What You Love Author:Ving Rhames
“I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.” KnowsChildrenMadePovertyMediaGrewGrew UpNeighborhoodDeprived Author:Ving Rhames
“I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.” KnowsPlayAgeGamesStuffPlayerMirrorsAppearanceBothered Author:Wayne Rooney
“You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory' before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.” IfsKnowsTryingDoneWholeMomentsDreamGamesMemoriesWhole LifeThat Moment Author:Wayne Rooney
“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.” IfsKnowsSaidWould BeRunningGoneMilesDustRunning Away Author:Ali Smith
“I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there’s usually something good at the end.” PeopleIfsKnowsEndsHardStoriesWaterTeamEntrepreneurOptimisticDesertFortunateHard TimesThrough Hard Times Author:Ben Silbermann
“You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?” KnowsMeanHas BeensDifferentCareKidsAbleSchoolTogetherCollegeHigh SchoolHanging OutGood FriendWho CaresNerdyClique Author:Brandon Sanderson
“My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.” PeopleKnowsPersonsHas BeensTurnsAdviceConceptsI RealizedThickGiverTherapistsMessed UpKnow It AllThick Of It Author:Cheryl Strayed
“You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantBigsForgetPositionDeserveOrganizationTiedTied Up Author:Chesley Sullenberger
“I love macaroni and cheese. I could eat it every meal of the day. It used to be sushi, but these days I cannot stop eating mac and cheese. I haven't had it from a box in a long time, but I'll make it homemade style with four types of cheeses, lots of milk, maybe a little ketchup. I don't know, I'm crazy like that.” KnowsLittlesLongUsedFourCrazyStyleHavensTypeEatingLong TimeBoxesUsed To BeThese DaysMealsMilkCheeseMacsHomemadeSushiKetchupMacaroniMacaroni And Cheese Author:Cobie Smulders
“I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.” KnowsNeedsNamesDealsCitiesStreetsWallTargetTacticsOccupy Wall Street Author:Dana Spiotta
“I didn’t try to intimidate anybody. I wanted to inform my employees of what their future would hold if they make the wrong decision. I wasn’t threatening any of the employees. If they vote for Obama they’re not going to lose their jobs.” IfsKnowsNeedsWantedChoicesWorryEmployeeWrong Choices Author:David A. Siegel
“The early seasons of 'The Simpsons' had a great deal of heart. That's what I'm trying to pull from, the kind of stuff that goes straight to kids' hearts. When they're watching, they don't necessarily know why they love something.” KnowsTryingHeartKindKidsStuffDealsSeasons Author:Fred Seibert
“I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.” ThinkingKnowsBookIdeasSeemsReadingTechnologicalAdvancementTechnological Advancement Author:Garth Stein
“Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.” KnowsGivingLongFeelingsDesireValuesTermHurtEmotionOpinionDogMoodLong TermDeep ThoughtHurt FeelingsVery Deep Author:Garth Stein
“I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.” KnowsNeedsChildrenLongSchoolMinutesBedStructureLeavingBoundariesMy ChildrenThrive Author:Jessica Seinfeld
“I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.” KnowsDoneShowsJobsYoungPilots Author:John Slattery
“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.” KnowsPlayCharacterFallEasyKnow HowFiveTelevisionGoes OnWalkingSceneSeasonsAssumingBoringTricky Author:John Slattery
“When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.” KnowsWritingYearsMadeLaughingScaredExcited Author:Jonathan Stroud
“Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.” KnowsWellsGood WritersGreat Writers Author:Karrine Steffans
“Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.” IfsKnowsMenWantCommittedCommitted Relationship Author:Karrine Steffans
“I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.” KnowsMenGirlMindsetKnow MeGirlyGirly Girl Author:Karrine Steffans
“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.” KnowsLittlesRealHappensYoungMotherFatherBlackBornBoysIssuesHeardSeriousDadYoung WomenSerious IssuesBlack Boy Author:Karrine Steffans
“As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.” KnowsChildrenArtistFunCallingExpectationsDestination Author:Kiki Smith
“You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.” KnowsDoneHappensWishEasyThings HappenWow Author:Louis Susman
“I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.” KnowsFeelsCareMy OwnDadHarderMy DadCancerHelplessCaregivers Author:Mindy Sterling
“I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.” ThinkingKnowsProblemStonesAbuseContactSubstanceSubstance Abuse Author:Octavia Spencer
“You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.” KnowsGratefulSouthBigotryRelevant Author:Octavia Spencer