Knowles Quotes

Dr. Stanpole's car was at the top of it, headlights on and motor running, empty. I idly considered stealing it, in the way that people idly consider many crimes it would be possible for them to commit. ~ John Knowles

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged. ~ Beyonce Knowles

There's ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love. ~ Beyonce Knowles

...moved by his own sermon. ~ John Knowles

I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping. ~ Beyonce Knowles

You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Today, you have the opportunity to make a difference. Do it in style. :) ~ Val Newton Knowles

At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years. ~ William Standish Knowles

I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon. ~ Eliza Doolittle

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate. ~ Sarah Knowles Bolton

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford. ~ William Standish Knowles

I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing. ~ Beyonce Knowles

You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Gene, on the desire to be Finny: I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas. ~ John Knowles

You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange. ~ Solange Knowles

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important. ~ Solange Knowles

At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school. ~ William Standish Knowles

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye ~ Beyonce Knowles

I'm really good at telling people 'no.' ~ Solange Knowles

My misery was too deep to speak any more. I scanned the page; I was having trouble breathing, as though the oxygen were leaving the room. Amid its devastation my mind flashed from thought to thought, despairingly in search of something left which it could rely on. Not rely on absolutely, that was obliterated as a possibility, just rely on a little,some solace, something surviving in the ruin. ~ John Knowles

I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Power is not given to you. You have to take it. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for. ~ Solange Knowles

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. ~ John Knowles

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.' ~ Beyonce Knowles

Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different. ~ Beyonce Knowles

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case. ~ John Knowles

Finny always said what he happened to be thinking, and if this stunned people then he was surprised. ~ John Knowles

There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down. ~ Billie Piper

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool. ~ Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see. ~ Solange Knowles

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt. ~ Solange Knowles

Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while. ~ Solange Knowles

Times change, and wars change. But men don't change, do they? ~ John Knowles

I would want them to really think about how amazing they are and how lucky they are to be a woman. And how powerful they are. And I'd tell them to love every day of it because it's the biggest miracle and a woman that's able to give birth is the most important, lucky, fortunate woman in the world. ~ Beyonce Knowles

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me. ~ Beyonce Knowles

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict. ~ Solange Knowles

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else. ~ Solange Knowles

Is he using terror to keep away boredom? Does he have to try to destroy something? Even as a last resort, himself? ~ John Knowles

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate. ~ Farquhar McGillivray Knowles

Reality was a bitch, but it cleaned away the fog so you could see the bullshit. ~ Erosa Knowles

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. ~ William Standish Knowles

Everyone's not good at everything, it's ok to depend on someone. ~ Beyonce Knowles

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents. ~ John Knowles

It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk. ~ Beyonce Knowles

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.' ~ Solange Knowles

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through. This world will know Satan. I am sorry for the end of your sins cause they're going to live in hell. I follow Lucifer. Hail Satan. ~ Beyonce Knowles

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Did you know there are hundreds of sites where you can list your free Kindle book promotions and they will give you FREE publicity and promote your book to avid Kindle readers? ~ Tom Corson-Knowles

Who runs the world? Girls. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Opening Ceremony is my number one favorite place to shop here. It's the only place I'll shop in New York with my son. All of the sales people are so cool; the music is great; it's just like a big fun house, so he stays entertained. ~ Solange Knowles

I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans. ~ Harry Knowles

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity. ~ John Knowles

The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great to bring it back for my generation, and to expose them to where that theme song which still sounds so modern and that legendary image of a pink cat came from. It's great to be a part of that, because it's history. ~ Beyonce Knowles

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift. ~ Beyonce Knowles

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence. ~ Beyonce Knowles

I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires. ~ William Standish Knowles

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Both my parents are first-generation success stories. ~ Solange Knowles

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete. ~ Beyonce Knowles

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love. ~ Beyonce Knowles

What goes around comes back around. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy. ~ Beyonce Knowles

What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion! ~ James Sheridan Knowles

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress. ~ Beyonce Knowles

But I don't know what guys I like because I haven't been out with enough to know. I'm still learning. ~ Beyonce Knowles

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be ... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me. ~ Beyonce Knowles

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world. ~ Solange Knowles

Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural. ~ Solange Knowles

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life. ~ Beyonce Knowles

The longest time that man may live,
The lapse of generations of his race,
The continent entire of time itself,
Bears not proportion to Eternity;
Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew
Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean!
There is the time of man
his proper time,
Looking at which this life is but a gust,
A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone! ~ James Sheridan Knowles

Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part. ~ Solange Knowles

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point. ~ Solange Knowles

I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Phineas didn't really dislike West Point in particular or authority in general, but just considered authority the necessary evil against which happiness was achieved by reaction, the backboard which returned all the insults he threw at it. ~ John Knowles

In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker soon encounters ideologies that are explicitly hostile to any larger, social understanding of his or her situation. The most blatant of these, in my experience, was the EST-like, victim-blaming ideology represented by Patrick Knowles and the books he recommended to his boot-camp participants. Recall that at the boot camp, the timid suggestion that there might be an outer world defined by the market or ruled by CEOs was immediately rebuked; there was only us, the job seekers. It was we who had to change. In a milder form, the constant injunction to maintain a winning attitude carries the same message: look inward, not outward; the world is entirely what you will it to be. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever. ~ John Knowles

Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great. ~ Beyonce Knowles

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood. ~ Beyonce Knowles

Forget the past and live the present hour. ~ Sarah Knowles Bolton

McVries seemed not to have heard.
"These things, they don't even bear the weight of conversation," he said, "J.D. Salinger ... John Knowles ... even James Kirkwood and that guy Don Bredes ... they've destroyed being an adolescent, Garraty. If you're a sixteen-year-boy, you can't discuss the pains of adolescent love with any decency anymore. You just come off sounding like fucking Ron Howard with a hardon."
McVries laughed a little hysterically. ~ Stephen King

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so. ~ Solange Knowles

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams. ~ John Knowles

We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will manage to learn. Educators can, however, make a difference in what people learn and how well they learn it. If we know why we are learning and if the reason fits our needs as we perceive them, we will learn quickly and deeply. ~ Malcolm Knowles

If Beyoncé Knowles and Miley Cyrus represent the latest branch of feminism, then surely the male-dominated power elite must be aroused with concern. ~ Mitchell Rhodes

My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: 'Star Wars.' ~ Harry Knowles

What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. ~ John Knowles

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters. ~ William Standish Knowles

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this. ~ John Knowles

I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone. ~ Beyonce Knowles

With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists. ~ Solange Knowles

This is a school,' said Pete in his level voice. 'All views can be expressed and considered here. We're not indoctrinating you.'
Yes, well,' Hochschwender replied coolly, 'that's a matter of point of view. ~ John Knowles

As I had to do whenever I glimpsed this river, I thought of Phineas. Not of the tree and pain, but of one of his favorite tricks, Phineas in exaltation, balancing on one foot on the prow of a canoe like a river god, his raised arms invoking the air to support him, face transfigured, body a complex set of balances and compensations, each muscle aligned in perfection with all the others to maintain this supreme fantasy of achievement, his skin glowing from immersions, his whole body hanging between river and sky as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide a little way higher and remain suspended in space, encompassing all the glory of the summer and offering it to the sky. ~ John Knowles

Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. ~ Beyonce Knowles

I think it's really important for every mother to find their own way. ~ Solange Knowles

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way. ~ John Knowles

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus. ~ Beyonce Knowles