No Idea Quotes - Page 29

• Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

  Jim Butcher

  Crazy, Eye, Ideas

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• Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

  Neal Shusterman

  Jobs, Book, Kids

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• ...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Stupid, Ignorance, Ideas

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• Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Eye, Ideas, People

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• The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

  James Patterson

  Grief, Loss, Ideas

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• Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Nice, Wine, Thinking

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• I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Party, Talking, Ideas

  Jeff Lindsay (2009). “Dexter by Design”, p.120, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

  David Levithan

  Ideas, Kind, Worst

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.63, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

  Sherman Alexie

  Garden, Ideas, Eden

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• Don't compare yourself to others you have no idea what their journey is all about.

  Dawn Abraham

  Inspirational, Life, Lost Love

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• There's not a lot of tolerance for people like me... To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

  Jon Cryer

  Bullying, Ignorance, Hair

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• I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.

  T. J. Stiles

  Book, Years, Ideas

  "'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama" by Michael Kuchwara, www.today.com. April 13, 2010.

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• No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Ideas, Flying

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• I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Ideas, Guy

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• I sang in the coffee houses . . . in the early 60's with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I had this deep, bassy voice. But I had incredible passion for the music I was singing.

  Judy Collins

  Coffee, Passion, Ideas

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• No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that you are willing to do something for, find a good dog and take care of him. You have no idea how much better you will feel.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Dog, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

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• I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

  Winston Churchill

  Play, Ideas, Dwelling

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• [The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.

  Keira Knightley

  Ideas, Yesterday, People

  "Keira Knightley Dismisses Weight Criticism" by Katie Pisa, Stephen M. Silverman, people.com. July 4, 2006.

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• I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  Regret, Ideas, Domestic Violence

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• I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Ideas

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• Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

  Rex Stout

  Ideas, Depth, Shallow

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• We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

  Rob Halford

  Thinking, Guitar, Ideas

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• I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas, Ineffable, Used

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• We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

  Tony Judt

  Ideas, Cost, Knows

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin

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• The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, 'I've got a really bad idea.' And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, 'And I can make it sh*ttier.'

  Lewis Black

  Party, Ideas, Two

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