Knew Quotes

I knew BB King when he first started out.

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

If youth knew; if age could.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

If only Tammy knew how much I really cared about her. She has nothing to do with any of this mess.

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.

When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

I haven't had many relationships.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls.