I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.
I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know.
People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
I don't." "Don't what?" She asked, somewhat puzzled. "I don't know many things. The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.
To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.
New knowledge enhances an ever increasing sense of our own ignorance. The more we know, the more we know we don't know. Feynman called it 'the expanding frontier of ignorance'.
Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
I know what is wrong, I know what is right, and most importantly, I know what is left. Nothing is left, now that she left and took all her love.
(You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.
We don’t know the final outcome, or even know how long the battle will last, but we do know the referee.
I don't know what's going on in America. I know what people in New York and Beverly Hills think about Whole Foods, but I don't know what people anywhere else think.
We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.
But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.
I asked my kids, 'Do you know what Papa used to do.' They said, 'You were a boxer, you won the Olympics!' And that's what they know.
Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.
Anybody who's lived in the ghetto knows that you don't move during the daytime. Here's why: You don't want anyone to know you're leaving, and you don't want anyone knowing where you're going.
The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know...
