Knowing Quotes (page 783)

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• words
• trouble
• word

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. Dennis Potter

• wild
• only
• he

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• could
• about
• curry

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY. Terry Prachett

• nature
• creativity
• quality

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: navet, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do. Steve Martin

• hope
• fear
• welcome

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might. Terry Prachett

• manly
• know
• you

Man, if you have to ask what it [jazz] is, you’ll never know. Louis Armstrong

• giving
• you me
• hand

Easy come, easy go, That's just how you live, oh, Take, take, take it all, But you never give. Should've known you was trouble From the first kiss, Had your eyes wide open. Why were they open? Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash, You tossed it in the trash, you did. To give me all your love is all I ever asked, 'cause What you don't understand is I'd catch a grenade for ya Throw my hand on a blade for ya I'd jump in front of a train for ya You know I'd do anything for... Bruno Mars

• got
• you
• know

you dont know what you got till its gone Joni Mitchell

• personality
• wellness
• enough

acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce

• him
• together
• broken

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now... Orson Scott Card

• contentment
• vote
• work

I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes. And I shall not be voting for Mrs. Clinton, who has the gall to inform me after a career of overweening entitlement that there is 'a double standard' at work for women in politics; and I assure you now that this decision of mine has only to do with the content of her character. We will know that we have put this behind us when [...] we have outgrown and forgotten the original... Christopher Hitchens

• your life
• life
• feeling

I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomorrow, a little better still. This is just a part of your life, and it's over. It would have been better to win, but either way, it's over. Life will go on. Stephen King

• enough
• memorial
• driving

She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They wouldn’t let him speak. She would never know what scenes were driving that turmoil. Ian Mcewan

• summer
• heart
• seasoned

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. Edna St. Vincent Millay

• god
• work
• him

From a knowledge of God's work we shall know Him. Robert Boyle