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Knowing Quotes (page 498)

Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once. Agatha Christie
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone... Doug Coupland
I have a special pair of poop shoes under my desk. Whenever I need to drop a deuce, I slip them on and scurry to the restroom, and no one ever knows it's me. Like, if I'm wearing Louboutins that day, and my producer sees Earth shoes in the stall....well, you get the idea. It was truly a lightbulb moment when that came to me. Oprah Winfrey
Pablo Neruda quote: "Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happywith..."
Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happywith only the autonomyof their shameless spirit. Pablo Neruda
There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives, as they go up the staircase of a theatre, or think of going to the Bouffons, or of setting up a carriage; who are murderers in thought when dear ones, with the irresistable charm of innocence, hold up childish foreheads to be kissed with a ‘Good-night, father!’ Hourly they meet the gaze of eyes they would fain close forever, eyes that still open each morning to the light.... Honore de Balzac
Margaret Mitchell quote: "You should be kissed and by someone who knows how."
You should be kissed and by someone who knows how. Margaret Mitchell
You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse. Margaret Mitchell
Stephen Fry quote: "I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that..."
I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way. Stephen Fry
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not. Franz Kafka
Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately..."
(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face? Dorothy L. Sayers
It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it. Mindy Kaling
I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost. If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to... Alexis de Tocqueville
Ted Hughes quote: "There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come..."
There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood. Ted Hughes
The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this an Aristotle and a Plato have much to say; but those who have imposed cautions on themselves and petrified themselves in a system of ideas, them the masters themselves will lead into error Thornton Wilder
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to. Dan Simmons

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