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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Know Quotes

How should I your true love know
From another one?
By his cockle hat and staff,
And his sandal shoon.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5. Ophelia appears to have gone mad and is singing about the loss of true love, pondering if that love was really true. She is clearly referring to Hamlet.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5. Ophelia tells Claudius that we know what we are now but not what we may become or where we may end up.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and be able to do more.

– John Lubbock

The Use of Life, 1894.

If someone wants to take me on a date? I don’t know if I’d say no.

– Hannah Simone

Sci-fi fans are the most loyal fans on the planet – there’s no doubt about it. I’ve done a few of those conventions, and these people will know the lines!

– Greg Evigan

You know, back in the 1950s and ’60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he’d be arrested.

– Howie Carr

I guess play piano, you know, because that’s the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

– Harry Connick, Jr.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.

– Henry Rollins

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

– Gerald Walpin

I come in. I’m going to sketch, I’m going to drape, I don’t know what I’m going to do.

– Geoffrey Beene

Many admire, few know.

– Hippocrates

I haven’t watched anything I’ve been in since I’ve done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I’ve been in. Why? I don’t know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.

– Helen Hunt

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while on the other hand too much effort and diligence sometimes saps the vitality and powers of those who never know when to leave off.

– Giorgio Vasari

Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.

– Graham Roberts

Most of my act is improvisation. I’m inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don’t know can be pretty inspiring.

– Howie Mandel

I don’t know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I’m sure that he could have found many willing participants.

– Gennifer Flowers

I simply don’t understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it’s lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.

– Geraldine McCaughrean

I assume you know what to do with this. That’s why you were hired.

– Grant Tinker

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

– Glenda Jackson

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

– Howard Rheingold

One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.

– Goodluck Jonathan

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn’t realize that before.

– Hugh Grant

I didn’t want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

– Harry Lloyd

Most of the people I know in show business don’t need anybody pushing them at all. They’re extremely aggressive.

– Helen Reddy

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

– Harri Holkeri

We don’t know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We’re kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.

– Hasan M. Elahi

I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would’ve thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn’t anticipate it.

– Greg Boyle

You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.

– Graham Chapman

If you’ve got a bazooka, and people know you’ve got it, you may not have to take it out.

– Henry Paulson

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

– George Woodcock

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