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“If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.”

Ifs Knows Men Stories Old Man

Author:Tom Waits

“When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.”

Knows Trying Kids Voice Achieve Howlin Wolf

Author:Tom Waits

“I didn't really want to be part of a clique or a niche. But I also was looking for my own voice, as a writer, y'know? And a world I could call my own.”

Knows World Want Voice My Own Niche Clique

Author:Tom Waits

“One of my best friends growing up was gay. ... It’s never been an issue for me. ... I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay, because it just meant more women for me! ‘I don’t know why you guys have a problem with this thing! I think it’d be great! I wish everyone was gay!’ ... That’s always the way I thought about it. ... I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn’t they?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Problem Guy Suffering Wish Growing Up Issues Growing College Gay My Best Friend Friends Growing Up

Author:Donald Trump, Jr.

“When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.”

Knows Kind Agents Casting

Author:Alexa Vega

“Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.”

Knows World Want Giving Bigs Light Hug

Author:Bob Geldof

“Every soldier knows this simple fact: If you don't know your enemy, you will not be able to defeat him.”

Ifs Knows Facts Able Simple Enemy Defeat Soldier

Author:Tulsi Gabbard

“And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Looks Persons Matter Hard Optimistic Pessimistic Optimistic Person

Author:George W. Bush

“As you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.”

Knows Mean Late Contact Iran Sanctions Bushism

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004

“I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.”

People Knows Way Might Force Danger Wake Up Threat Everyday Conviction Despise Way To Live

Author:Wole Soyinka

“When I read Spencer Madsen’s poetry, I not only feel awe because he’s so good, one of the best, but I also think about how everything in the world is happening at the same time, and how the world we get to know is so heavily edited down. It’s the hugest, weirdest feeling. I wish Spencer Madsen could be everywhere at once. I really love You Can Make Anything Sad.”

Thinking Knows World Feels Feelings Wish Love You Happenings Awe Edited

Author:Dennis Cooper

“Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.”

People Knows Happens Divides Chapters

Author:Will Self

“I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.”

Knows Soul Self Left Lifetime My Soul Layers Grime Toffee

Author:John Banville

“Sometimes Allah punishes and sometimes men have to do it, and it is a wise man who knows if it's Allah's turn or his own.”

Ifs Knows Men Sometimes Turns Wise

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.”

Knows Has Beens Book Open Book

Author:Rod Stewart

“You know, I had no trouble with the girls.”

Knows Girl Trouble

Author:Rod Stewart

“I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.”

Thinking Knows Important Reader Freak

Author:Shania Twain

“By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.”

Knows Dies Knowing One Day Sixty

Author:Terry Pratchett

“My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.”

Knows Father

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'”

Knows Firsts Moments Felt First Time Legs That Moment Ariel

Author:Carly Rae Jepsen

“I'm feelin' electric tonight Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99 Got my bad baby by my heavenly side I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight”

Ifs Knows Dies Sides Baby Tonight Heavenly Electric Coast

Author:Lana Del Rey

“As proud as I am of Doo-Wops I feel like, 'Oh, man. People haven't seen nothing. They don't even know what I'm about to do,' and that's what I can't wait to show the world.”

People Knows Men World Feels I Can Shows Waiting Havens Proud

Author:Bruno Mars

“Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.”

Knows Kids Wanted

Author:Bruno Mars

“You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that's what you're gonna get!”

Knows Feels Feels Right

Author:Bruno Mars

“You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.”

Knows Way Matter Ears Poetry Is

Author:Vikram Seth

“You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.”

Knows Writing I Can Novel Imagine Writing Poetry

Author:Vikram Seth

“With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.”

Knows Men Acting Rights He Man Despair Optimism Rejoice Counting Expect Nothing

Book:The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre

Source: The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre

“I know only one Church: it is the society of men.”

Knows Men Church

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.”

Knows Men Secret Kings Painful

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.”

People Knows Stories Speak Events Terrible Flow Disappear Witness Going Away Tails Plunge Plausible Heads Or Tails

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.”

Knows World Way Doe Important Reason Hands Grows Secret Existence Tree Ignorance Roots Profound Seeds Circles Absurd Explanation Paws Delirium Sprouts Extremity Nausea Rotation

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“God's Word brought me peace and a desire for a relationship with Him. I found that questioning Him and searching for answers through Scripture helped me grow and gave me direction. Now my faith in Christ is what gives me confidence for the future. I know that through both good times and bad, He is faithful and will watch over me.”

Knows Giving Desire Found Grows Christ Answers Watches Give Me Scripture Faithful Good Times Questioning

Author:Clint Dempsey

“I don't know how much longer I can complain.”

Knows I Can Know How Complaining Insurgent Annie Hall Drawn Together

Author:Homer

“Without TV, it's hard to know when one day ends and another begins.”

Knows Ends Hard Tvs One Day

Author:Homer

“I would like to believe there is a God, but I think it is better to say I'm not sure there is a God and live your life with kindness and respect for people than to say I know there is a God and then do bad things.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Kindness Not Sure Bad Things Live Your Life

Author:Rafael Nadal

“Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Ideas Philosophy Facts First Time Titles Wow Essays Amazing Things

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong[. . . .] We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and development we are no threat to Israel. We have no intention of aggression against any country. [. . .] Today we announce to you that the political will of Iran is aimed at the negotiated settlement of the case and we dont want to aggravate the situation in our region[. . . .] We know that this issue can be settled in a constructive dialogue and we welcome that.”

“If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.”

Source: My Discovery of America

“Obamacare is going to destroy everything we know as a nation.”

Knows Nations Obamacare

Author:Paul Broun

“I like the Twilight series. I thought it was fun. I don’t like vampires personally, I don’t know any; but you know my granddaughter was reading it and I thought, well this looks like fun so I read that.”

Knows Wells Looks Reading Fun Series Vampire Twilight Granddaughter Twilight Series

Author:Mitt Romney

“There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%”

Knows Mind Doubt Player Basketball My Time No Doubt Basketball Player Toronto Masai Raptors

Author:Masai Ujiri

“I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.”

Knows Writing Heart School Educate

Author:Terrence McNally

“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.”

Knows Years Reason Feelings Wanted School Remember Faces Mother Father Parent Security My Friends Classic Ashamed Typical

Author:Kurt Cobain

“Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.”

People Knows World Said States Whole Helping Wish United Enemy United States Weapons Gains Access Nuclear Whole World Als Allies Nuclear Weapons Engineers Pakistan Physicist Al Qaeda

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”

Knows Form Nations Loss Identity Defeat Contemporary Inevitable Colonization National Identity

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.”

Ifs Knows Men Cat Treats

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.”

Knows Unbearable

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?”

Ifs Knows Heaven Imagination Imagine Knowing God

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I do know what’s been useless to me is the online fantasy name generators. I’ve tried those a few times, and they say, ‘Just hit this button and we’ll generate 50 fantasy names,’ and they all turn out to be ‘Grisknuckle’.”

Knows Turns Names Fantasy Useless Online Buttons Generator

Author:George R. R. Martin

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