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Knowingly Quotes (page 318)

..and better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation. Paulo Coelho
One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them. Friedrich Nietzsche
Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it. Stephen King
People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are. Tennessee Williams
We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know. Vladimir Nabokov
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. Ralph Ellison
I’m sorry, Silvertongue, but the fact is I don’t believe anyone. You ought to know that by now. We’re all liars when it serves our purpose. Cornelia Funke
To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need. Joan D. Vinge
life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish Virginia Woolf
Peter Shaffer quote: "Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same..."
Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the world? Peter Shaffer
Lydia came back to bed. We didn't kiss each other. We weren't going to have sex. I felt weary. I listened to the crickets. I don't know how much time went by. I was almost asleep, not quite, when Lydia suddenly sat straight up in bed. And she screamed. It was a loud scream. "What is it?" I asked. "Be quiet." I waited. Lydia sat there without moving, for what seemed to be about ten minutes. Then she fell back on her pillow. "I saw God," she said, "I just saw God." "Listen, you bitch, you are... Charles Bukowski
William Shakespeare quote: "I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and..."
I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows. William Shakespeare
It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children. Suzanne Collins
All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories-if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. Neil Gaiman
Robertson Davies quote: "He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly..."
He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father. Robertson Davies

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