Know Quotes

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

~ Leslie Jones

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

~ Rush Limbaugh

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

~ Larry David

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

~ Julia Roberts

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.

~ Michelle Pfeiffer

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

~ Paul Lynde

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

~ Paula Poundstone

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

~ Lorrie Moore

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

~ Tanya Tucker

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

~ Ruby Wax

Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?

~ Kris Holden-Ried

Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.

~ Ryan Hansen

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

~ Michael Emerson

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

~ Anatole France

The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.

~ Arthur Slade

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

~ Henry Miller

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

~ Ryan Holiday

When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.

~ Cynthia Ozick

The idea was always going to be that each year is a stand-alone story, which did make it easier on some level. It also requires the network to have the creative imagination to say, 'This is also 'Fargo,' you know what I mean?

~ Noah Hawley

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

~ Edgar Degas

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

~ Peter Max

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

~ Groucho Marx

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

~ Marcel Proust

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

~ Emily Carr

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

~ Roy Lichtenstein

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

~ William Hazlitt

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

~ Aaron Siskind

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

~ Aldous Huxley

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

~ Grandma Moses

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

~ David Hockney

The best artists know what to leave out.

~ Charles De Lint

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

~ Joseph Stalin

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

~ Jackie Kennedy