Really Knew Quotes

84 quotes by 76 authors

I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got… — Anne M. Mulcahy
We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry a lot about… — Austin Kleon
It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was… — Josh Gad
If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew… — Anne Hathaway
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as… — Joyce Carol Oates
I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I… — Emma Watson
Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never… — Rebecca Solnit
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If… — Grace Paley
I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a… — Denis Johnson
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone elseâ€™s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind… — Rachel Vincent
I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. Iâ€™d met mine of course, but then I only knew… — Lloyd Jones
I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more… — Lucy Grealy
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention… — Barbara Kingsolver
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on… — Graham Greene
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be… — Janet Fitch
That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to… — Ann Patchett
These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low… — James A. Baldwin
I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you. — Nora Roberts

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