Top 131 Not Knowing Quotes

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years – not knowing what you’re going to do.

I always get carried away when I’m kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It’s embarrassing – not knowing what to say to each other.

For me, a big part of anxiety and depression was not knowing how to say ‘no’ and wanting to please too many people… part of this process is learning to draw the line and slow down.

I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

I came to New York in 2008 not knowing a thing about fashion, but even back then I knew Opening Ceremony was this beautiful, welcoming beacon on the shores of taste, shooting up gorgeous flares for us wayward souls at sea.

I’ve always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my agent says, ‘You got an audition for ‘My Fair Lady’ with Bartlett Sher.’

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she’s playing on screen.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept – not knowing who is real. No way.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time… I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. You are baby-sitting rich, spoiled kids… I don’t know where you parked your car!

I don’t think anyone could have predicted that I would have gone in less than a year from not knowing how many cards were in a deck to winning a major poker title.

Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It’s Lindsay. She’s great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she’s everywhere. She’s on everything.

There are not many things that can happen much worse to a family than having a member taken and not knowing what happened to them.

I think about moving across the country, barely having the money to do it, it gives me so much anxiety. I think there’s something to be said for just not knowing, being a little naive, and just flying by the seat of your pants, because it is a big thing, it’s really stressful.

I’ve been the teenage success, I’ve been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn’t done ‘Wild Bill,’ I’m sure I would have acted in something else.

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we’ll see that person again – or perhaps knowing that we won’t.

If one wants to change the way things are, one has to take risks and be part of different kinds of cinema, despite not knowing how it will be received. That’s what thrills me.

It’s never one thing it’s a lot of things because you learn that show business is one of the most complicated industries in the world. The agreement you make is based on you not knowing what’s going to happen next. So, it’s a guessing game and you’ve got to really believe in yourself and know who you are.

The original idea of being anonymous – it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree we’d be touring or to what extent this was going to be a professional operation. That regimen is very hard to live by. What I hadn’t foreseen was the fans and their willingness to embrace that and play along.

I guess it’s the fear of failure and not knowing how the films are going to do that just drives us to work really hard to make them the best they can possibly be.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they’ll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth… Even when I’m uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold… I think, ‘Thank God for what I’ve got.’

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.

‘Portlandia’ is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you’re 17 or 18, hopefully. And that’s what I did.

In the first day of the Soviet Army’s arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything… I can only conjecture what could have happened.

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.

I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it’s a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I’ll be doing next – or even if I’m going to work.

I never felt it wasn’t mine. But I was also very respectful of not knowing what I didn’t know. Because the Marvel Cinematic Universe is very deep, and unless you live in it you can’t possibly know it all.

Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director’s salary or the office rent.

Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it’s just an illusion that one has control over one’s life.

I’m taking a break, if you will. Days’ was going through a renewal negotiation and not knowing where they were going to go.

I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for ‘Top Model’ for that.

My favorite part of my job is really getting to connect people to their loved ones and, really, to allow them to have a release and be able to come into a session not knowing what they’re wanting or expecting, and be able to leave it feeling a sense of healing and a sense of closure.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

You don’t need to know who I’m dating. You don’t need to know what I’m doing. I’m fine with everybody not knowing that.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story’s going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you’ve won is completely draining.

I think all girls do struggle with image, despite not knowing what’s going on with other people.

In my own studio, I can just lock the door and record myself, do layers of vocals not knowing how they are going to turn out, and just scrap it if it doesn’t work. It’s my space. I’m running everything.

Sometimes as human beings, we’re so contradictory – we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That’s what I’m learning to embrace in television – not knowing what’s going to happen.

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they’ll come home at night to take it off.

There were a lot of people in Manchester that I was connected to, so it is a bit different coming to London and not knowing as many people.

We’re pieces of the puzzle. If I fit in a certain algorithm, then it’ll be time for me to go. It’s tough as a baseball player, it really is, not knowing much, but you just have to play.