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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. -- Francois Rabelais
Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me. -- Julie London
I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist. -- Grant Achatz
I just wrote about childhood as I had known it. -- Beverly Cleary
I never had any desire to become a well-known actress. -- Rebecca Miller
I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late. -- Richie Ashburn
Nick Abraham and I had known each other from Ryerson University. -- Ari Millen
I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex! -- Benedict Cumberbatch
If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago. -- Phylicia Rashad
In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance. -- Eduardo Chillida
If I had known how much I hate auditioning, I doubt I would have become an actress. -- Jaime Murray
I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World. -- Jimmy Carter
I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially. -- Peter Cullen
Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it. -- Kevin Whately
I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot. -- Joyce Maynard
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. -- Max Beerbohm
The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for. -- Aldrich Ames
I had always known that I was Jewish - we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue - but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it. -- Caroline Leavitt
Almost without exception, the talented women I have known have believed they had less ability than they actually had. And almost without exception, the talented men I have known believed they had more. -- Gregory Petsko
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud case would require that the reporter's deceit had been malicious and resulted in financial gain. -- Brendan I. Koerner
It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone. -- Alison Bechdel
If i had known... i would have lingered over my coffee a little longer. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. -- Wilson Mizner
If i had known better, I would have done better. -- Kim Kardashian
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. -- Albert Einstein
But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself. -- Shel Silverstein
I've never known a runner who had as much patience as he needed. -- Amby Burfoot
If it had blown up, I wouldnâ??t have known a thing about it. -- Oil Can Boyd
I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more. -- Ace Frehley
If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker. -- Albert Einstein
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. -- Thomas Hobbes
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that. -- Earl Hamner, Jr.
If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first. -- Lois Wyse
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. -- Roger Zelazny
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago. -- Roger Zelazny
Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day. -- Rabih Alameddine
If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. -- Nathan Lowell
I'm fully aware had I stayed with my art, I would be well known, respected and most likely rich. -- Betty Dodson
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving. -- Stephen Colbert
I had the insane misconception that I was ready to conquer the known universe with TÃ¤htivaeltaja. No mercy! -- Toni Jerrman
Not even battling but just really known for rapping. Like I had songs up on Soundclick first, take it back. -- Ab-Soul
I have never known a woman who, after her baby was born, was not overjoyed that I had not killed it. -- Aleck Bourne
As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly. -- Denny Hamlin
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. -- Albert Einstein
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. -- Kiefer Sutherland
The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children. -- Jim Henson
Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst. -- Damien Hirst
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. -- Andrew Solomon
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth. -- Peter Capaldi
I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had. -- Heidi Montag
I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences. -- Deborah Cox
If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story. -- Edwin D. Ferretti III
I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years. -- Vanilla Ice
If I'd only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others. -- Saul Leiter
I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence. -- Lurlene McDaniel
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind. -- Aldous Huxley
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages. -- Paul Engle
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. -- Lily Tomlin
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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all. -- Willa Cather
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. -- Hilaire Belloc
It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young. -- Anna Lee
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought. -- Graham Greene
America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine. -- Matt Taibbi
I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera. -- Gordon Parks
If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know. -- Wilhelm Keitel
I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known. -- Miguel
I'm sort of known in the comedy community as 'Smooth Sailing,' just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn. -- Jon Glaser
Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn -- Abbi Glines
There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it. -- Toba Beta
I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise. -- Mary Balogh
The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed. -- Alice McDermott
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. -- Vladimir Nabokov
When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore. -- Ian Mckellen
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. -- Harry S. Truman
The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness. -- J.D. Stroube
If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences. -- Natalie Portman
Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons. -- Ben Mendelsohn
I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available. -- Nico Muhly
No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years ago. Now it's too late. -- Michelle Obama
Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows. -- Ford Madox Ford
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.] -- Albert Einstein
Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director. -- John Glen
Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them. -- Jack Nicholson
I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it. -- Phil Collins
If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian. -- Allyson Felix
During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth. -- L. Frank Baum
Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not. -- Stephen Fry
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. -- Banksy
Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be. -- Hortense Odlum
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word. -- Adam Langer
I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite. -- Rick Yancey
I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity. -- Bill Bryson
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. -- Max Beerbohm
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad. -- Andre Dubus
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. -- Carl Sandburg
Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living. -- Sherwood Anderson
I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them. -- Tony Palermo
Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about. -- Herman Cain
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt. -- Thomas Jefferson
When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters. -- Ilene Beckerman
For our third date, Agatha said she wanted to pay separately. And I wouldn't have readily agreed had I known she also meant she wanted to eat separately too. -- Jarod Kintz
Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it. -- William Cornelius Van Horne
One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love -- Andy Warhol
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel. -- Joan Didion
I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After reading CLOTHING OPTIONAL, I'm almost sure he does. -- Rob Reiner
Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis. -- Charlie Chaplin

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