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Knowing Quotes (page 843)

Mark Twain quote: "All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being......"
All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse. Mark Twain
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after. Ernest Hemingway
Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that’s grass! A pink blur! That’s a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows. Ray Bradbury
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden with virtues that they never know success in life. Orhan Pamuk
I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring. Ernest Hemingway
There's two dates in time. That they'll carve on your stone. And everyone knows what they mean. What's more important. Is the time that is known. In that little dash there in between. That little dash there in between Garth Brooks
There is light underwater, even at night, but it is a far cry from the lights that we all know and love... the light by which the reaper reads his list. Tom Robbins
There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He looked back out at the water. I didn’t expect any more acknowledgment than that. Fang never- “You almost gave me a heart attack,” he said quietly. “When I saw you, and all that blood . . .” He threw a small rock as hard as he could down the beach. “I’m sorry.” “Don’t do it again,” he said. I swallowed hard. “I won’t.” Something changed right then, but I... James Patterson
Irving Berlin quote: "You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and..."
You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about. Irving Berlin
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs. -Augustine St. Clare Harriet Beecher Stowe
One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanen? Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight. Hunter S. Thompson
Louise Erdrich quote: "We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand..."
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try. Louise Erdrich
Every little trifle for some reason does seem incalculably important today and when you say of a thing that "nothing hangs on it" it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it forever. E. M. Forster
Neil Gaiman quote: "And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save..."
And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can. Neil Gaiman
There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time. Irvine Welsh

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