Really Knowing Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or… — Eric Clapton
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing… — Mark Nepo
I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent… — Anna Paquin
And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what… — Justin Guarini
I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or… — Carrie Brownstein
As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know,… — Peter Cushing
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing… — George Brett
I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die. — Wes Bentley
I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of… — Dree Hemingway
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing,… — Tomas Transtromer
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've… — William Gibson
Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has… — Kirk Hammett
A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the… — Ray Bradbury
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book.… — James Howe
Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without… — Ray Bradbury
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance… — Charles de Lint
Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: Thatâ€™s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really… — Haruki Murakami
Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means. — Caitlin Moran

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