Knew Better Quotes
34 quotes by 29 authors
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine…
— Cole Porter
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At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying…
— Sumner Redstone
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Jesus Christ left us an example for our daily conduct. He felt no bitter resentment and He held no grudge against anyone! Even those who…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
— George Bird Evans
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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight…
— George Bird Evans
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We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us.…
— Norman Maclean
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Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into…
— John Irving
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Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had…
— Robert Wise
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Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
— Ellis Peters
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I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in…
— Walter Mosley
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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead…
— Ally Carter
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There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money.…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you…
— Brian Eno
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I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It…
— Jane Pauley
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
— Cole Porter
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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come…
— Alice Hoffman
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She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
— Carl Hiaasen
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He made a weak attempt to look innocent, but I knew better. "Should I guess how many concealed weapons you have or should I strip…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Most people believe me when I lie. I've learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of face. But the…
— Ally Carter
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