Really Knew Quotes

84 Really Knew quotes by 76 unique authors

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 else’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. I’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
But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did. — Patricia Briggs
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is… — Wystan Hugh Auden
One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own. — Debra Ginsberg
I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I… — Barbra Streisand
You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you,… — Elliot Perlman
The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective… — Oscar Wilde
As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, "This… — Tom Cruise
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm. — Cicely Tyson
I grew up singing since the age of three. Vocally trained since the age of eight. Fascinated by Mary Poppins and all those musical movies… — Nikki Blonsky
My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful… — Ali MacGraw

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