Shania Twain Quotes

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks... They're trying to figure it out.

It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.

Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.

It always seems crazy to tell people what to expect. That never works! So, I don't know what to say, other than that they can expect me.

I've not won different awards - many, many times - so luckily I've practiced that whenever you are nominated for anything, you enter into this marvelous, fantabulous bubble called the bubble of nomination. The minute the envelope is opened and your name isn't called out, the bubble bursts. And no one calls you up the next day to say, 'So sorry you didn't win,' or 'You looked gorgeous - nothing. If you win, you get about another 24 hours in that lovely bubble and then - pop - you are slightly wet all over from the bubble and realize that you have to get on with real life.

You just never know how anything is going to go.

Are you who I think you are?

One does not know where love will take you.

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course

I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is.

There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

I never made 'Who's Who,' but I'm featured in 'What's That?'

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.