Knows Quotations | Page 3

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.

A Mormon knows that the promises of God are true, and He said that all will be tried; realizing these things the Latter-day Saints will acknowledge their Maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations.

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage, I even think I may have it figured out.

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

Everybody knows a guillotine choke, and most know how to get to one. But if you can create a different way to get to that choke, then you're going to surprise people. However, that will only happen one time, because once it gets used that one time, everyone will see that and start to train for it.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

I'm persuaded today that the only way you can get into another country with a different culture from your own is to find a local partner who knows the market. Discovering this felt like small children discovering that if you put a bobby pin into an electric plug you get a shock!

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

I am never afraid of what I know.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

If you want to lower your risk of Parkinson's disease, caffeine is protective to some extent; nobody knows why. Head injuries are bad for you. They lead to Parkinson's disease.

Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.

Everyone knows that in Hollywood, when you're hot, you've got to run with it. Because eventually they kick you out.

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

People think they have a perfect idea of who you are from a four-second Snapchat video... and fake blogs, stories, magazine covers. In reality, that's not the case. Nobody knows who I am except family and my close friends.

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

I know who I am and what I do.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

I know you can be funny without being filthy.

I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I want my teammates to know I have their backs.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.

Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.

Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back.

I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.

I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.

I never really got into game shows. The easiest one is 'Wheel Of Fortune' because you just have to know words, and for the most part everyone knows words.

It's unfortunate that there's such a disconnect between what's happening on our legislatures and what the public knows about, the consequences what that means for ourselves, our mothers and our wives.

I've always got a sweet tooth. I have chocolate hidden in places that nobody knows about.

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people.

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

Studios are so used to digital now, and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance, digital is great for night exteriors; everybody knows it's a video tap, so it's very responsive to light. So you can go out at night, shoot with digital, and it's gorgeous, beautiful to look at.

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

Always wear a smile because you never know who is watching.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.

You don't quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you're on the floor

I have enjoyed acting very much, because I know it's not for real!

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.

I only know one way to pitch. I really do.

Always enjoy the ride, because you don't know where it's going, but it's going to be all right.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I'm not going to just fade out, I know.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.