I Know Quotes

It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.

I know how long I need to be working to make my dreams become a reality.

The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.

I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.

You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?

In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'

I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!

When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.

You never know how people are gonna receive you and especially a character that's so close to the fans in type...

I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects and do it onstage. That's what I learned. I didn't know how to put a set together.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but I don't go anywhere, nor do I want to.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

I am a great supporter of [Matteo ] Renzi, he is young, he knows how to communicate, he's our great hope.

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

Where should be be if we set ourselves to deny everything we do not know how to explain?

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.

There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.

Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.

When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

I think it's important to know yourself before you try to deal with a relationship.

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to be direct. I don't think there's time to waste.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!