Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bill Hader When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Dean Martin When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.
    Dean Martin
    American film actor and singer (1917 - 1995)
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  • Bayard Taylor When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire:... And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Jacob Riis When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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  • Callie Khouri When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Trollope When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ''present'' or ''not guilty.''
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Billy Williams When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Allen Klein When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Carine Roitfeld When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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W. Bruce Cameron When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Carlos Gershenson When we are children, we think that adults know how the world works. When we become adults, we know enough about the world to know that we know nothing about it...
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Helen Keller When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Alan Cohen When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about... never underestimate the importance of a kind act.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Antonin Artaud When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • F. B. Meyer When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
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  • Benjamin Watson When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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