If I Knew Now What I Didn Know Then Quotes

I knew that we were sharing something with our eyes, but I didn't know what, and I didn't know if it mattered. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I knew you were meant to kiss girls, but there was something else that you were meant to do first, and I didn't know what that was. — Mark Barrowcliffe

I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn't know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip? — Gina Greenlee

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew. — Clifton Fadiman

I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. — Kara Walker

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon. — Aleksandar Hemon

I always knew what I wanted to do, I just didn't know I could do it. — Nina LaCour

I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real. — Krishna Das

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew. — Michael Caine

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. — Jack Prelutsky

We write to find out what we didn't know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation. — Carolyn Coman

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew — Robert Frost

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas. — Christine Feehan

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write. — Alan Furst

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what. — Elvis Presley

He said it like he assumed I knew what the grandfather paradox was, because, if I didn't know, then I was a moron. I hate when people do that. — Rick Yancey

I didn't know what the future held. But I knew it held Dex. And that was more than good enough for me. — Karina Halle

But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is. — Lana Del Rey

I didn't know what to do.
I knew what I wanted to do. I knew what I was supposed to do.
But I didn't know what I was going to do. — Julio Alexi Genao

This was the girl I knew. This was the girl I'd loved. And although I didn't know what had happened to her, I knew I had to find out. — Rebecca Donovan

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know. — S.J. Rozan

This is what you got when you let people in. They started to think they knew you when they didn't know shit. — Samantha Young

He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want. — Kathryn Lasky

Goosnargh, said Ford Prefect, which was a special Betelgeusian word he used when he knew he should say something but didn't know what it should be. — Douglas Adams

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do — Susan Smith

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes ... man I dug. — Roy Eldridge

I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life. — Jim Hamilton

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know. — Tom Clancy

Kelly Nakata didn't know much about what was going on, but she knew that once a dog starts biting for no good reason, it doesn't tend to stop. — Mira Grant