Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again. ~By Gianni Agnelli ~
I like big, secure companies. I know what they do for a living. When I see their names on my monthly statement I know how they make their money. ~By John Fisher ~
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them. ~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Do you know what directors go through? It's just hell. Like, why do I work so hard - to think I'm only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again 'cause I'm so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly? ~By Michael Bay ~
I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country. ~By Olusegun Obasanjo ~
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ~By T. S. Eliot ~
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment. ~By Charlie Trotter ~
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. ~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. ~By Robert Smith ~
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. ~By Margaret Spellings ~
She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty. ~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs. ~By Heston Blumenthal ~
That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on. ~By Mike Krzyzewski ~
You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens. ~By Tanya Tucker ~
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. ~By Paul von Hindenburg ~
I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage. ~By Micky Dolenz ~
Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul. ~By Billie Jean King ~
This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them. ~By Gideon Welles ~
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
We feel good about our running backs as we have them right now, and we will continue to see how they progress. ~By Jerry Jones ~
People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. ~By Tom Vilsack ~
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets. ~By Eric Cantor ~
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. ~By Tycho Brahe ~
Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know. ~By Ben Shahn ~
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. ~By James Harrington ~
Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with. ~By Ernie Pyle ~
When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be. ~By Mary MacLane ~
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar. ~By Demetri Martin ~
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. ~By Peter Fonda ~
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Cedric, man, it's like if I'm working with you, like I'm sitting here now talking to you, I want to get along with you. That's how I am. I feel like if I get along with you, the work will be splendid. ~By Mike Epps ~
They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them. ~By Kenneth Blackwell ~
I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything. ~By Ashlee Simpson ~
But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day. ~By Vince Gill ~
I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean? ~By Shane MacGowan ~
You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands. ~By Joan Jett ~
I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team. ~By Tim Conway ~
You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them. ~By Luke Scott ~
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new. ~By Walter Gilbert ~
I was just in the middle of singing a song about how broke we were and now my cell phone rings. ~By Joel Madden ~
You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart. ~By Johannes Tauler ~
Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy. ~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point? ~By Jon Fishman ~
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. ~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong. ~By Mike Thompson ~
We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do. ~By LaToya London ~
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. ~By Michael Jackson ~
What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other. ~By Thomas Starr King ~
I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet. ~By Michael Fassbender ~
In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education. ~By Gael Garcia Bernal ~
I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it. ~By Anthony Hopkins ~
I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now. ~By Magic Johnson ~
For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. ~By Morton Feldman ~
And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again. ~By George Takei ~
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too. ~By Angela Ruggiero ~
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. ~By Robert Anthony ~
A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich. ~By Ward McAllister ~
As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series. ~By Randy West ~
Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film. ~By Alan Cumming ~
I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why. ~By Douglas Dunn ~
I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less. ~By Meg Whitman ~
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. ~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before. ~By Thomas Clarkson ~
Every actor I know wants to be a pop star. ~By Michael Hutchence ~
I've always been into powder, that's what I like riding, and now you've got to go farther to get it. ~By Craig Kelly ~
We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal. ~By Mitch McConnell ~
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo. ~By Wayne Coyne ~
We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off. ~By Maria Shriver ~
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ~By Mark Twain ~
I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too. ~By Laura Bush ~
It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds. ~By Charisma Carpenter ~
The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ~By Cathy Rindner Tempelsman ~
I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not. ~By Donna Leon ~
At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known. ~By May Sinclair ~
You never know what show is going to change your life. ~By Brion James ~
I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear. ~By Lillie Langtry ~
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear. ~By Branford Marsalis ~
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago. ~By Terry Brooks ~
I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key. ~By Warren Cuccurullo ~
If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral. ~By Gregory Nunn ~
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. ~By Edith Wharton ~
Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing. ~By Shannyn Sossamon ~
Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old. ~By Bhumibol Adulyadej ~
Well, as you know, there are 24 hours in every day. And if that's not enough, you've always got the nights! ~By Ronald Graham ~
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. ~By James A. Baldwin ~
This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. ~By Mark Akenside ~
One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you. ~By Samuel Dash ~
I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was. ~By Brandon Routh ~
Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now. ~By Stephen M. Walt ~
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know. ~By Leslie Fiedler ~
For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are. ~By Guy Hamilton ~
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. ~By Charles Kettering ~
I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off. ~By Scott Foley ~
Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. ~By Cullen Hightower ~
Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it. ~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode? ~By David Letterman ~
You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals. ~By Chris Cooper ~
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded. ~By Bruce Dickinson ~
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? ~By Satchel Paige ~
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