Dawned On Me Quotes

#1. I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#2. Flying monkeys?" the Gasman called out a guess. "Like in the Wizard of Oz?"
It dawned on me then. "No," I said tersely "Worse. Flying Erasers.

James Patterson

#3. I stood staring at this man, who accepted me fully, and it dawned on me for the very first time, he might be a better person than I was. I'd picked apart every action he'd ever made and weighed it by my scale of correct and incorrect, while he simply accepted me for everything I was.

Donna Augustine

#4. My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

Ruby Dee

#5. It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

Ben E. King

#6. Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.

Thom Yorke

#7. Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

Vicki Lawrence

#8. While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

Art Buchwald

#9. I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

Barbara Kingsolver

#10. Now we are creatures of the darkness
Blessed with eternal love to last!
The knowing dawned on me with sharpness
Enhanced by glimpses of the past.

Tatyana K. Varenko

#11. And it dawned on me that I had not designed the questionnaire to find a woman I could accept, but to find someone who might accept me.

Graeme Simsion

#12. It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be a footnote in history.

Harvey Pekar

#13. We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.

Paul Reiser

#14. I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

Kaskade

#15. And then it dawned on me that the greatest love stories in the world never have happy endings.

Avijeet Das

#16. It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

Jimmy Durante

#17. Very Nice to meet you all"
They all floated in silence as if waiting on something when it dawned on me that they were waiting for me to get in. I pulled off my shirt and tossed it with my towel. When I turned around their mouths were agape.
"What?"
"N-nothing" Finley said, her eyes wide.

Fisher Amelie

#18. After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealthy things.

Sharon Stone

#19. But, it never dawned on me how wrong it was that I tied her innocence to the fact that she was with me, not who she was, and I am humbled by my ignorance.

Cassie Dandridge Selleck

#20. It dawned on me that he saw me as a sort of child, someone to be treated with kid gloves and presented with reality by degrees.

Zadie Smith

#21. After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'

Steve Martin

#22. I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

Moby

#23. And, at that moment, it dawned on me. I was one of those people. The people that I detested. The jobless people that you see all of the time. The people that make you wonder.

Scott Hildreth

#24. It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

Hugh Jackman

#25. I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

Jenny Holzer

#26. I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.

Steve-O

#27. It dawned on me that no person is as poetically homesick as someone who has come to New York for the first time and glimpsed a small vestige of her home state.

Suzanne Rindell

#28. I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.

Edward Herrmann

#29. It dawned on me that art was the way I could survive.

Maurice Sendak

#30. In the middle of his performance, it dawned on me that this was exactly the effect Derek Novak had on me; one way or another, he always took my breath away.

Bella Forrest

#31. It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

Chuck Klosterman

#32. After a week passed it had dawned on me what I was and, more importantly, that I needed to do a little more research before climbing into one of you people.

Michael Siemsen

#33. It dawned on me that my world was defined by accumulation, by the gratification of acquiring things, of seeing numbers go up and up again.

Leon Logothetis

#34. My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.

Richard Moran

#35. The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else.

Geraldine Stutz

#36. At some point it dawned on me that I might actually be in big, big trouble. The thought was immediately followed by the staggering realization that despite years of slowly killing myself, all I wanted, with more passion and ferocity than I'd ever wanted anything else in my entire life, was to live.

Kristen Johnston

#37. I didn't want to remember ... yet in remembering, it dawned on me - finally - just how far down God had reached to free me.

Nikki Rosen

#38. I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

Carre Otis

#39. Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.

Mark Indelicato

#40. While looking down memory lane, I realized that I have had an unusual and extraordinary life at times. Then it dawned on me, maybe it's because I'm supposed to help unusual and extraordinary lives.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#41. Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

Adam DeVine

#42. And because she did not shove this down my throat, this dawned on me.

Anne Lamott

#43. I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

George Carlin

#44. And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.

Jandy Nelson

#45. But then it dawned on me that the opinion of someone who is always wrong has its own special utility to decision-makers.

Warren Buffett

#46. Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.

David J. Schwartz

#47. Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me ... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

Bea Arthur

#48. It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating
after all, they are women
but they cannot be curmudgeons.

Cleveland Amory

#49. I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

Laura Haddock

#50. It dawned on me then that I didn't understand anything half as well
as I thought I did.

Kyra Dune

#51. In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

Abby Sunderland

#52. It actually dawned on me that I don't fight. I just kill whatever annoys me, and it's over. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#53. I started reading about people of great accomplishment ... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Ben Carson

#54. I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

John Lasseter

#55. It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

Jesse Owens

#56. Slowly, it dawned on me that nothing was more important than stopping violence toward women - that the desecration of women indicated the failure of human beings to honor and protect life

Eve Ensler

#57. I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

Craig Ferguson

#58. For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That's not what I think; that's what married people think.

Lewis Black

#59. I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

Mark Warkentin