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“I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”
Andy Warhol
“I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest”
V. S. Naipaul
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
Robert H. Schuller
“I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.”
Nicole Kidman
“It was Peace. Peace is when you would shake the hands of the people around you. And you knew peace was coming because the priest would say it five times rapid fire. He'd go, "My peace I leave, my peace I give to you. While we ate Reese's Pieces with the Lord. And I have a piece of lint in my peaceful EYE!"”
Dane Cook
“I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.”
Carlos Fuentes
“He was the one person I ever knew, anywhere, who was never afraid.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
“Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes”
Cole Porter
