Know Me Quotes - Page 16

• You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?’ ‘Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of -‘ ‘Someone you used to know?’ Alec interjected skeptically. ‘Someone I used to be.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Want, Used, Knows

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• May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

  Max Ehrmann

  Depression, Friendly, World

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.11, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'

  Dwayne Johnson

  Tonight, Want, Wow

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• I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

  Judy Blume

  Book, People, Treats

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• The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat.

  Michele Bachmann

  Running, Party, Winning

  Michele Bachmann (2011). “Core of Conviction: My Story”, p.15, Penguin

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• I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

  Gareth Gates

  Girl, Life Changing, College

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• It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

  Naima Adedapo

  People, Dancer, Singers

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• I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story ... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

  Scott Peterson

  Opportunity, Voice, People

  "Amber Frey talks of trial, book and life after Peterson". www.cnn.com. January 11, 2005.

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• Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.

  Bob Dylan

  Girl, Shoes, Bells

  Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

  Harold Pinter

  Knowledge, Numbers, Ignorant

  Harold Pinter (1967). “The Homecoming”, p.52, Grove Press

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• I'm sick of people saying I hate blacks, women, and gays. It's false and slanderous. Everyone who knows me knows I hate the Chinese.

  Zach Braff

  Hate, Gay, People

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• The public doesn't really know me. Only people in my inner circle know me well. Others identify me by the beard, always mad, sweaty and that is today's image. People don't understand me, they are scared of me.

  Vazgen Sargsyan

  Circles, People, Mad

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• Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Hope, Flower

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• I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, but you’re not sure I’m worth your time.

  Kate Angell

  Looks, Like You, Figures

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• Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

  Dennis Wilson

  Want, Knows, Ifs

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• I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare?

  Jessica Sorensen

  Wall, Writing, Heart

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• What matters is that someone—that you—know me that well. When a person can see into your soul, it's hard. It forces you to be open. Vulnerable. It's much easier being with someone who's just more of a casual friend.

  Richelle Mead

  What Matters, Soul, Vulnerable

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.351, Penguin

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• I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

  Tom Heinsohn

  Thinking, Player, Fans

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• The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.

  Cris Judd

  People, Dancer, Majority

  "Dirty Dancing: The Secrets Behind Its Sexy TV Makeover". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.tvguide.com. December 06, 2006.

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• There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Hate, Love You, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Opportunity, Men

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• If you want to know me, listen to my music.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Want, Knows, Ifs

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• Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.

  La'el Collins

  Football, Growing Up, Hard Work

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Once youve changed who you are or who youve portrayed in your music, the fans, theyll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

  The Weeknd

  Fans, World, Changed

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• When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Thinking, People, Want

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