Know Quotes

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

~ Jim Valvano

You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.

~ Ginnifer Goodwin

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

~ Kim Edwards

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

~ Herb Brooks

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

~ George Santayana

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

~ Steven Spielberg

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

~ Aeschylus

As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.

~ Lee Daniels

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

~ Corey Taylor

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

~ Enrique Iglesias

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

~ Krista Allen

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

~ Cleveland Abbe

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

~ Michael Jordan

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

~ Al Unser

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

~ Adam Sandler

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

~ Marlon Wayans

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

~ Allen Klein

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

~ Steven Wright

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

~ Joss Whedon

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

~ Tracy Morgan

You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.

~ Viggo Mortensen

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

~ Bob Newhart

Anyone who knows me, and most of my fans, know that I have a sense of humor.

~ Glenn Danzig

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

~ Martin Landau

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

~ Roseanne Barr

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

~ Paul Mooney

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

~ Steve Irwin

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

~ Fred Allen

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

~ T. C. Boyle

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

~ Aziz Ansari

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

~ Carmen Electra

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

~ Ryan Kwanten

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.

~ Stephan Pastis

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

~ Geraldine Ferraro

I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.

~ George Cukor

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.

~ Maira Kalman

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

~ Milos Forman

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.

~ Jessica Hagedorn

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

~ Kurt Sutter