The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
Henny Youngman

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Joan Rivers

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert Camus

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.
Andy Rooney

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
Virginia Woolf

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
Paul McCartney

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
Paul McCartney

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Mike Tyson

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
David Letterman

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.
Layne Staley

Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
Layne Staley

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Eminem

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher