Judith McNaught Quotes

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Judith McNaught

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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Want
  • Know
  • Alone

• The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Know
  • Ignorance
  • Owe

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Kids
  • Think

• I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Me
  • Know

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Children
  • Difference
  • Skin

• I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Different
  • Know
  • Facts

• For some reason, the fans got behind me, and I don't know exactly why that is. I wasn't supposed to main event WrestleMania XXX, but the fans were so vocal about it that the fans had no choice but to put me in the match. I've had a lot of lucky breaks.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Know
  • Reason
  • Fans

• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Me
  • Know
  • Movies

• I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Know
  • Theater

• What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Live
  • Know

• In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Know
  • Die
  • Politics

• We Germans should know that we're good at constructing cars, and we have a lot of good qualities. But we're not the funniest.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Know
  • Qualities

• Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.

  

  Pansy Ho
  • Know
  • Rules
  • Gaming

• I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Business
  • Know
  • Numbers

• The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Truth Is

• Running for Senate is a very involved process.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Running
  • Process
  • Very

• Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Society
  • Education
  • Careers

• The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you can't put butts in the seats.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

  

  Judith McNaught
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Counts