Top 1200 Did You Know Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!

I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.

I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

As long as you know you gave whatever you did 100% you're considered a winner in my book.

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

Why did humans lose their body hair? Why did they start walking on their hind legs? Why did they develop big brains? I think that the answer to all three questions is sexual selection.

'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.

Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.

I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

Did you know that Dog Heaven and Cat Hell were the same place?

I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did.

Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In 'Anna Karenina,' nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it.

Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.

People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. I know that sounds like no big deal. But I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha — correct in every way! Buddhas can be very intricate — these drawings that you see in books. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. Where did they come from? I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat, you know? And there it was. And I thought, Wow — the power of the mind, you know?

Not many kids get the opportunity to meet their idol, I know I wish I did.

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

I don't know that there's ever been a human spaceflight mission that did not have some anomaly.

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

I think people will say, 'You know what? That Shaun Alexander, he did all right when he was here.

Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years.

When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?

Did I become an entertainer because my father died and I wanted to be what he loved? I don't know.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.

In fact, I get angry when people laugh at me. I go to the airport and the ground hostess starts laughing at me when she sees me. I get irritated and ask them if I just did some comedy for them to laugh like that. But then I apologise because I know they must have remembered some movie scene that I did.

Every time I think I’m getting smarter I realize that I’ve just done something stupid. Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know; those who don’t know and do know they don’t know; and those who know and know how much they still don’t know. Heavy stuff, I know. I think I’ve finally graduated from the don’t-knows that don’t know to the don’t-knows that do.

I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

When I did the Art of Living course in Mumbai in 1996, I really didn't know what to expect.

I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

I don't consider success doing a show for 30 years; I'm sorry. To me, you're successful when you graduate from something. I did a series, I did a talk show, I did movies, I replaced Mickey Rooney [on Broadway] in "Sugar Babies." You understand?

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I'm more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, and why my marriage isn't in dire straits.

Let me put it this way, I lived in L.A. for 10 years and did not know my neighbors.

Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?