All Quotes

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
‐‐ Tab Hunter

I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him.
‐‐ Eve Babitz

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.
‐‐ Kirsten Nelson

I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.
‐‐ Charlie Bewley

I knew Manuel Pellegrini from my time in Spain. I'd only heard good things about him, that he was someone who instilled the confidence in his players to go out and play good, attacking football.
‐‐ Sergio Aguero

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
‐‐ Karl Marlantes

I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.
‐‐ Lawrence Schiller

I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
‐‐ Berkeley Breathed

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.
‐‐ Robin Williams

I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks.
‐‐ Eugenie Clark

I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
‐‐ Richard H. Davis

I knew my boyfriend was going to ask me to marry him. And I was sure the ring was going to be exceptional, and I bought him a Rolex Explorer. And I engraved 'yes' on it. And when he proposed, I gave him the watch.
‐‐ Rena Sofer

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
‐‐ Venus Williams

I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?
‐‐ Raquel Welch

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
‐‐ Peter Hargreaves

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
‐‐ Andrew Lloyd Webber

I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.
‐‐ Ruby Wax

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
‐‐ Ziyi Zhang

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
‐‐ Jet Li

I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle.
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.
‐‐ Brian Behlendorf

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.
‐‐ Michelle Rodriguez

I knew nothing about the industry, I didn't go to fashion school, but I was brave enough to do things in a different way.
‐‐ Peter Nygard

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
‐‐ Edward Steichen

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
‐‐ Raymond Chandler

I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.
‐‐ Tila Tequila

I knew people liked me on 'American Idol,' but I didn't think they'd care to come see me sing at my own show.
‐‐ David Archuleta

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.
‐‐ Patti Davis

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.
‐‐ Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.
‐‐ Lila Acheson Wallace

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.
‐‐ Kim Novak

I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.
‐‐ Schoolboy Q

I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.
‐‐ Lauren Alaina

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.
‐‐ Brenda Blethyn

I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sudden energy. I told my family I was going to be a pediatrician, but in the back of my mind, I was like, 'Nope, I'm going to be the biggest movie star ever.'
‐‐ King Bach

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.
‐‐ Frank Vincent

I knew some of the army quite well.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.
‐‐ Tilda Swinton

I knew style and content went hand in hand.
‐‐ Boy George

I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.
‐‐ David Roberts