#knows

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#come #condition #forth #him #himself

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#difference #dress #himself #his #knows

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. ↗

— Steve Martin

#cringe #explains #gets #i #into

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#anything #audience #difference #dinner #dinner table

It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are. ↗

— Walter Matthau

#easy #here #knows #live #nobody

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#go #going #into #knows #nobody

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#disappears #eventually #family #get #know

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. ↗

— John McGahern

#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#dealing #god #knows #more #somebody

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#educate #knew #knows #must #now