I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A’s and a 4.0 and all that.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that’s what I thought live performance comedy...

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

I always knew I’d be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn’t know if I’d be successful at it, but I knew I’d be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in...

I had a career at home, and I just knew that it’d be okay if nothing happened in Los Angeles.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That’s when you know it worked.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I’d written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so...

All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on. I loved how you never really knew who the ‘bad guys’ were in...

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music – I didn’t look the same.

I pledged to become the world’s greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

Lotta people don’t realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don’t get with anyone else. After you’re twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it’s different from...

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating...

If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they’d never eat another drumstick.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we’d be terrified.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn’t know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

That’s why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn’t want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when...

I knew I wanted to get married and have a family, but it was important that my husband be a Jew; I didn’t want to have to explain what Hanukkah is.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn’t passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven’t even caught on to yet.

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of ‘KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.’ The minute I saw Gene and Paul… it was all over....

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there’s a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they’re going to turn around and say, ‘Hey, we want a bigger say in things.’ So, I knew what...

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don’t see any evidence that he knew what...

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of...

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

Going in, I knew I wasn’t one of the top ones, because I didn’t even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had...

I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until he went back and looked at it.

I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn’t understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple’s forte.

For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally.

It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were – if you screwed up it was your fault.

I see a young man playing ‘Plaisir d’Amour’ on guitar. I knew I didn’t want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I...

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I...

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn’t like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can’t hear more than 50 yards...

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota’s kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on,...

I always knew I was going to make it, without doubt.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest.

I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.

When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for ‘From Dusk Till Dawn,’ but I actually didn’t know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.