Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. – Sydney Smith
I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate. – Thomas Ian Griffith
As soon as you define what an assault weapon is, you know, you can’t sell a weapon, and here’s how we describe it, gun manufacturers just make one adjustment or two, and they say, ‘See, this isn’t subject to the limitation.’ – Tim Kaine
I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen. – Toussaint Louverture
You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft. – Talib Kweli
After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one – no one – has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter. – Steven Hatfill
I will entertain anything; it doesn’t matter. You know, it’s not obviously about the price, it’s not about who, it’s kind of about when and what. It’s material, that’s all. – Tom Hanks
You know what I would really like to do? I’d like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it. – Sharon Gless
I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don’t live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don’t know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. – William Shatner
I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it’s a band – everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into. – Steven Van Zandt
If you’re a writer, you know that the stories don’t come to you – you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that’s where the stories were. – Tom Waits
I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. ‘I don’t usually read this kind of stuff, but.’ – Tananarive Due
Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it’s surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like you know what you’re doing. Releasing and re-loading magazines is difficult when you’re asked to do it quickly and efficiently. – Trieste Kelly Dunn
There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine. – Terry Pratchett
I mainly read non-fiction, and that’s probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don’t know. – Steve Earle
I know companies in Cleveland that could make the suits and the other things that Donald Trump has outsourced. – Sherrod Brown
Kids in Alaska don’t know they’re growing up on the Last Frontier. It’s just what they see on the license plates, and it’s something tourists like to say a lot because they’ve never been around so many mountains and moose before. – Tom Bodett
I’m going to have to go with math. Even though that’s one of my harder subjects, but it’s one of the funnest. Because I also want to be an architect when I grow up, if I can, and I know that being an architect takes a lot of math in it. – Sterling Beaumon
I don’t know how anyone can see the Hubble ‘Deep Field’ image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there. – Tracy K. Smith
A president, like a college freshman, can’t know in advance which questions he’ll have to answer or what topics he’ll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice. – Walter Kirn
