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Know Quotes

Quotes on knowing and being known.

These quotes explore both sides of 'know' - the sharp insight of knowing an opponent's weakness in sports, and the disorienting feeling of not knowing anyone after moving to a new city. Related reading includes Always Quotes.

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

Quotes by Ken Starr

There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

Quotes by Ken Stott

No one will die if they don't know how old I am.

Quotes by Ken Stott

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

Quotes by Ken Thompson

Before the last Olympics, we had meat raffles at the local surf club to get petrol money to go to training, to help out with the bills. But I know there are a lot of athletes worse off and that...

Quotes by Ken Wallace

Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.

Quotes by Ken Howard

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.

Quotes by Ken Jennings

Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.

Quotes by Ken Kesey

If I'm in a room full of intense people, I'm pretty normal. If I'm in a room full of people who aren't, maybe I'm intense. I don't know, I don't think of it that way.

Quotes by Ken Leung

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Quotes by Ken Leung

It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.

Quotes by Ken Liu

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

Quotes by Ken Livingstone

Preparation is really important for actors; they need to know who they are, where they're from, and the experiences up to the point that we make the film.

Quotes by Ken Loach

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

Quotes by Ken Bruen

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

Quotes by Ken Curtis

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

Quotes by Ken Follett

I don't know what my numbers are as a DH, but the fact that you're sitting basically for three hours and 38 minutes of a baseball game, you're hoping you get four or five at-bats.

Quotes by Ken Griffey Jr.

I was writing country songs, but I wasn't listening to country yet. I grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, so my roots are country, you know? But I didn't know where those songs came from or where they...

Quotes by Kelsea Ballerini

The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.

Quotes by Kelsea Ballerini

I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!

Quotes by Kelsey Grammer

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on the "Know" page?
A mix of sports, career, and social observations — a sharp scouting line about Koufax's weakness at the plate, a reflection on not knowing many people after moving to a new city, a note about a lesser-known Broadway credit, and a football transfer story involving Inter, Liverpool, and Galatasaray.
Are these quotes mostly about sports?
Not exclusively — two touch on sports and competition, but others are about feeling like a stranger in a new city or being underappreciated for past work, like a Broadway role people "don't know" about.
Is there a quote here about surprising choices?
Yes — the line about several clubs wanting a player, with people surprised he chose Galatasaray over Liverpool, captures an unexpected decision well.
How does "Know" differ from <a href="/like-quotes">Like</a> quotes?
"Know" quotes are about information, awareness, and being (or not being) recognized, while "Like" quotes are more about preference and taste.
What if I want something more consistently upbeat?
Good quotes or Always quotes lean more positive, while "Know" quotes here are more observational. For something closer to personal identity, Me quotes is also worth checking.

Others touch on being unknown for past work, or clubs wanting advance knowledge of a player's next career move. See Good Quotes and Me Quotes for related themes.