Dawned On Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Whether or not it has fully dawned on society, the reality is that Gen Y will soon have to assume the responsibility for a world crafted by previous generations.

Charlie Caruso

#4. 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

#5. We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems start to fail, it's only a cultural understanding that allows you to reconstruct them and to get back to who you are. For some reason, it hasn't dawned on us yet.

Wynton Marsalis

#6. 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

#7. He laughed, and it dawned on him that this was what he was going to miss the most - all the possibility that was Beth and he. The future moments like this, of laughing and loving. Of sharing and touching.

Karen Hawkins

#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. Something like a small blue supernova flared for a moment in the depths of his eyesockets. It dawned on Mort that, with some embarrassment and complete lack of expertise, Death was trying to wink.

Terry Pratchett

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

Vicki Lawrence

#11. Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

Ariel Durant

#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. It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?

Isabel Lopez

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

Ben E. King

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The realisation of where he was suddenly dawned on the youth in chains, who stopped abruptly, recoiling like a fugitive at the edge of a cliff, and swallowed noisily in the obscure silence.

Stanley Goldyn

#18. 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

#19. And it suddenly dawned on the late Windle Poons that there was no such thing as somebody else's problem, and that just when you thought the world had pushed you aside it turned out to be full of strangeness.

Terry Pratchett

#20. It dawned on him - as it hadn't before; he was dense, he was slow - that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could make him come home, they could refuse to pay the portion of his tuition they'd agreed to pay, but they couldn't see his jeans. "Understood," he said.

Chad Harbach

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Maurice Sendak

#26. 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

#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 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

#29. 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

#30. I remember when the big shift happened in 1996-97, when suddenly it dawned on the music community: 'We should license our music to commercials and sell out for all intents and purposes. It doesn't really matter.'

DJ Shadow

#31. It dawned on him gradually that he had entered middle-age without ever being young, and that he was, in the nicest possible way, "on the shelf".

John Le Carre

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Sharon Stone

#39. 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

#40. 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

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

Avijeet Das

#42. 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

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

Paul Reiser

#44. 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

#45. Male prostitutes? Why should women pay for it when men will do it to them for free anytime they ask?" The other detective leaned over and whispered in his ear for a few seconds, and then it dawned on the poor dumb bastard what I meant.

E.R. White Jr.

#46. 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

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

Anne Lamott

#48. 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

#49. 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.

#50. The golden glory of love's light Has never dawned on my way My path has always led through night To some deserted by way But though life's greatest joy I miss There lies a greater strength than this I have been worthy of it.29

Colin Grant

#51. 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

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

Carre Otis

#53. 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

#54. One day it dawned on her that life was not going to happen some time in the future She realized that her happiness was right here and now." -

Katrina Mayer

#55. It dawned on him that he really could be a cop if he wanted to, and it dawned on him that he'd had this revelation while eating a donut, and it that wasn't a sign, he didn't know what was.

Doug Dorst

#56. Then one day it dawned on him that in his heart lay a key to the state of enchantment- of being in love..!

Aporva Kala

#57. 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

#58. It slowly dawned on the thief that a duel was but moments away.

Steven Erikson

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. It slowly dawned on the volunteers that they were not patients but subjects; separated from their friends and community in Kalaupapa, they felt like outcasts among outcasts.

Alan Brennert

#62. Where did you find this?" Lakri asked Ingra smiled with no response it dawned on Lakri that his son knew what was going on

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#63. It dawned on him that the loneliness of marriage, the thing Alice had so feared, starts out of love itself, which can never deliver on its promises.

Josephine Humphreys

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

David J. Schwartz

#65. 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

#66. Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

Richard Lamm

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#70. Then it dawned on Joshua that God was not on Israel's side. He beckoned Israel to be on His side. Joshua couldn't claim God for himself or for his own interests the way the people around them used their idols. Rather the Lord claimed Joshua and His chosen people for Himself.

Tessa Afshar

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#76. He had probably been thrown out of a wine shop, and it hadn't quite dawned on him yet.

Kafka, Franz

#77. He watched David approach, first with scorn, then with surprise, and then with what can only have been horror - as it dawned on him that the battle he was expecting had suddenly changed shape.

Malcolm Gladwell

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

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

Kyra Dune

#84. Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?

Oswald Chambers

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

Abby Sunderland

#86. A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.

Bob Chiarelli

#87. Debtors and idlers abounded in the colonial era, but failing in business was not so calamitous as falling from grace... In Early America, fear of failure loomed largest on Sunday. Monday morning dawned about the year 1800. By then, 'failure' meant an entrepreneurial failure.

Scott A. Sandage

#88. the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and w shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.

Anonymous

#89. Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.

Dean Koontz

#90. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.

Charlotte Bronte

#91. I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. I thought sometimes I saw beyond its wild waters a shore, sweet as the hills of Beulah

Charlotte Bronte

#92. A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.

Ken Follett