“If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.” IfsKnowsWantMeanImportantRunningHouseTermRaceAreasLocalsRepresentativesHouse Of RepresentativesReelection Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.” ThinkingKnowsMayRunningPoliticalFatherNamesPresidentMiddleBarackKrypton Author:Barack Obama
“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindBookRunningJobsCertainStuffChangedProveEvidenceDecidedLogicMathCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningBuddyOntologySloppyYou Changed Author:David Auburn
“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsYearsLongRunningUsedStarsEnvironmentOne ThingThis WorldFootballCollegeComfortablePreparedNutsSeniorCollege FootballSenior Year Author:Donal Logue
“Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!” KnowsWellsHeartPersonsRunningNumbersGreaterRiskAmountDiseaseFatsDiabetesHeart Disease Author:Daniel Pinkwater
“I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.” KnowsWantLooksDoneRunningFilmWinningRaceKnow How Author:Donald Pleasence
“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.” KnowsTwoRunningLastsPastWeekMonthsStandardsSpeedRanOlympicsChampionshipImprovingOver The PastConstantly Improving Author:Oscar Pistorius
“If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.” IfsKnowsLittlesI CanWould BeRunningCan DoHellToo MuchDisciplineEatingComplexesOverweight Author:Michael J. Fox
“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
“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
“People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.” PeopleKnowsWayKindMatterHardFactsRunningThreeCan DoCasesEconomyPlansOfficeOilMisleadGlobal EconomyGasolineBumperStickerBumper StickerRunning For OfficeGasoline Prices Author:Ken Salazar
“Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.” IfsKnowsWayBigsRunningLostGivenPresidentRepublicanLosingAccountsRomneyMccainTidyOffshore Author:George Will
“You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.” IfsKnowsSelfPlayMomentsHomeRunningPerfectHonestHealthBuddhismInvolvedConnectionsCriticalBeing ThereAthleticsHome RunCritical Moments Author:Frederick Lenz
“We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.” KnowsKindRunningHalfRiskEnormousReducingReductionEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesBallparks Author:Nicholas Stern
“You know, that's the very least that the American voters can expect is that when you're running for President that you outline what you would do and what you would do differently from this - from the President of the United States.” KnowsStatesRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesVotersOutlinesAmerican Voters Author:Mitt Romney
“Margaret Thatcher said,you know the problem with socialism is that eventually it will run out of other people's money. And she was absolutely right.” PeopleKnowsSaidProblemRunningSocialism Author:Jedediah Bila
“If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.” IfsKnowsFirstsChildrenSelfPlayWould BeEyeCareRunningHouseStarsParentWatchesTeachSelf EsteemFieldsSeriousRaisesParentingFingersPaintEsteemFirmMy ChildrenHugConnectingRaising ChildrenPower Of LoveBeing A ParentCorrectingHaving ChildrenKitesChildren And ParentsParents LoveChildren PlayingGood ParentRaising KidsFunny ParentingParent ChildFunny ParentTuggingGreat ParentingInspirational ParentingKids PlayingRaise Self EsteemLove My ParentsLoving ChildrenInspirational ParentsEyes WatchingI Love My ParentsLove My KidsWise ParentsBuilding Self EsteemBeing A Good ParentLove My ChildrenThrough The Eyes Of A ChildLove My SonHaving A Son Author:Diana Loomans
“If you're playing your character and you're running into all these people who know who you are and treat you in a way that doesn't pertain at all to the character, it takes you out of it more, so when you're alone in a city where people don't know you, you can kind of pretend even more and get into the head space of where you need to be.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayNeedsKindCharacterRunningSpaceCitiesTreatsWho You Are Author:Chris Messina
“Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.” PeopleKnowsWorldBigsRunningHeardMilitaryBillsFilmmakerGatesGeekRiceHardware Author:China Mieville
“I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.” KnowsHas BeensRunningGivenPathTroubleGrewGrew UpHumbleMissionsBackgroundsFedsMidnightStampsRight PathMany FriendsDestituteFood Stamps Author:Debi Mazar
“It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.” KnowsBigsRunningYoungEasyCenturyRaisedShoesTransitionFoxes20th CenturyEyebrowsBig Shoes Author:Richard D. Zanuck
“There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.” KnowsWayYearsRunningBitsFeetThrowingGesturesCheeksSoloDentistValveClowning Author:Gene Lees
“My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East and so you know that's a grind out game.” KnowsStillsShowsBigsRunningGamesHalfCourtEastCoachesGrindUcla Author:Shabazz Muhammad
“Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.” IfsKnowsTryingStillsRunningFallCompanyKnow HowStandingBoardsShoreSoftwareAgain And AgainSurfAdviserSoftware Company Author:Joel Spolsky
“Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.” KnowsRunningSongGuitarFolksSingers Author:Brownie McGhee
“I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I don’t know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little.” KnowsWritingLittlesRunningReadyCoffeeDrunkShirtsOutlookDrankShirt Off Book:Valencia Source: Valencia
“Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must sound like. Our ailments complete us.” KnowsRunningSoundFeetEarsSweetestAilments Author:Gregory Maguire
“At the weekends I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.” KnowsPlayRunningKidsNamesGardenSoccerWeekendTentsBarbecue Author:Magnus
“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.” IfsKnowsFirstsMadeSaidStillsRunningWantedMotherNightHurtBrokenFineInjuryToesLapI Was Hurt Author:Ronda Rousey
“If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.” IfsKnowsMenWantHardRunningKnow HowForeverRiskLove YouExtrasTangoLove You Forever Author:Sherman Alexie
“I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.” KnowsYearsMadeHappensRunningFiveStageFrontsHappeningsRiversDryFive YearsSweatPouringMicrophones Author:Nickolas Ashford
“I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.” IfsKnowsRunningLeftReady Author:Lesley Visser
“Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.” KnowsRunningFaster Author:Roshon Fegan
“You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people.” PeopleKnowsHomeRunningGirlStarsTypeGuestsTypicalReally CoolHome RunCool PeopleGuest StarsNew Girl Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!'' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great.” PeopleKnowsStillsShowsRunningKidsCreditHeyCampsBootsEpisodesSkipArizonaGoofyBoot Camp Author:Graham Yost
“When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.” KnowsFeelsBookRealEnoughRunningReadingCompanyNovelHavensNovelistsReal ThingsReading Novels Author:Peter York