Didn't Realize Quotes

#1. For a while, it felt like I was on top of the universe. I didn't realize that I was about to fall.

Carlyle Labuschagne

#2. A good story, well told, makes you realize you were yearning for something you had no name for, something you didn't even know you wanted.

F.S. Michaels

#3. Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong, so completely not the kind of thing you liked, that you'd realize they didn't really know you at all.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#4. We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

David Zucker

#5. When I got to 'The Daily Show,' they asked me to have a political opinion. It turned out that I had one, but I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

Stephen Colbert

#6. I didn't realize how angry and jealous it would make me to see you being held by another man, and when he dropped his hands to your ass and thrust his leg between yours I wanted to rip his fucking head off and then spin around the room holding it up like a warning sign.

Jen Frederick

#7. I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

Dick Gregory

#8. I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

Erin McKeown

#9. And I didn't realize. I didn't take into account. Just. You know, this is real to you. I mean, I know that, we know that, but we don't at the same time. We really just never will. I don't think. Totally get that. You spend so much time discussing and debating it becomes ... But. Well. I'm sorry.

Gillian Flynn

#10. And just when I thought the pain had dulled, my mind would betray me and bring Dad back to life in my dreams. Sometimes I didn't realize that he was dead until I awoke and then it was like a punch in the stomach. And sometimes I knew in my dream that I was dreaming, and I woke up crying.

Ilona Andrews

#11. When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

Zayn Malik

#12. I brought gear. I thought you might be in need of clothing, but I didn't realize quite how in need. Tessa

Cassandra Clare

#13. Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.

Jello Biafra

#14. I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

Sierra McCormick

#15. My agent called me at 5:30am, and I thought the set of my movie had burned down, or Josh [Hutcherson] had died, or something ... I didn't realize! I was so tired!

Jennifer Lawrence

#16. At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Larry David

#17. I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life,

Arnold Palmer

#18. I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself?

I.M. Pei

#19. She didn't realize how beguiling she was in her innocent gestures.

Melanie Dickerson

#20. I used to think I knew love. But now, I realize I didn't. I didn't know love until I met Shelby.

Troy Bisson

#21. That moment you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone else is just getting on with their lives as though you didn't just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback

Anonymous

#22. I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'

Ally Condie

#23. I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

S. Truett Cathy

#24. I didn't realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. 'I do,' I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. 'I do,' he vowed.

Stephenie Meyer

#25. I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

Dean O'Gorman

#26. Until he taught me to fl, I didn't realize how deep beneath the earth I'd buried my hopes and dreams.

Julie Johnson

#27. I went into designing my house thinking I could have some more expensive items because I didn't realize my kids were going to be animals.

Nicole Polizzi

#28. I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#29. Honestly, I wish I'd known just how hard it is and how competitive the acting world is. I took my time; I went at my own pace. That's been helpful over the years, but also, I didn't quite realize how incredible everyone else was going to be: the level of competition and everyone's skill.

Max Von Essen

#30. Nd when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

Laini Taylor

#31. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Cassandra Clare

#32. Her boldness, which I'd always thought I'd been borrowing from her, had become mine in ways I didn't realize until she was gone. I didn't flinch around people who didn't like me; I didn't feel anymore like being myself was something for which I owed the world an apology.

Danielle Evans

#33. It didn't take me long to realize that Caleb was my empty planet.

Tarryn Fisher

#34. I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Donald Johanson

#35. You're amazing."
"I know it didn't take you this long to realize that."
"No. I've always known it." I watched him root around for another strawberry. "Maybe not in the beginning ... "
He peeked up. "My awesomeness is all about the stealth.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#36. The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.

Liane Moriarty

#37. Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.

Jodi Picoult

#38. All groups are a little intimidated by ya show of power. I mean who ever thought the monarchy was dead didn't realize it changed zip codes. - Cross

Mira Monroe

#39. My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#40. I was a full-blown street cat. I was trying to hustle my way. I thought I was going to hustle my way to a mansion or something. I was doing pretty good, but I didn't realize that there was no way to win that game.

Ice-T

#41. 'Didn't realize Matty was so scary,' Chris said.
'She's maybe five two and can't make it up a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing. But if I really pissed her off, she might poison my coffee.'
'Sounds like someone I'd like to meet.'

Kim Fielding

#42. ...Now did you ever hear of a young feller's having such hard luck, Mrs. Burden?"

Grandma told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.

Willa Cather

#43. I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.

Alex Breckenridge

#44. I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.

Norma McCorvey

#45. The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

Patti Smith

#46. I always dreamed of the stars. Getting as high as I could so I could reach out and touch them. I didn't realize, not until I'd seen the Earth from orbit, that I'd been dreaming the wrong dreams. Everything that matters, everything that's important, is right down here.

Jeremy Pack

#47. Your online life is a variety show, so if anything, the fact that you didn't put me in your stand-up act means you covet me. Maybe even more than I realize, since right now your hand is heading to your cunt yet again.

Caroline Kepnes

#48. Then don't give up. One day you'll look around and realize that all the things you thought mattered so much, really didn't matter much at all.- Gran

J. Sterling

#49. It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don't want to be, having trod a path I didn't want to take.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#50. It was like seeing the slides at the optometrist, when you didn't even realize how blurry something was until you got to see the clearer version, and you could see what had been obscured before.

Morgan Matson

#51. People didn't realize how important it was to hug the single people in church - particularly the widows.

Kris Knorr

#52. I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art ... that people actually paid for it ... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.

Wade Guyton

#53. didn't realize how crazy I was until I came out of it. It was like being on a descending airplane with compressed ears that whooshed until I yawned or swallowed.

C.D. Reiss

#54. It's funny," she said reflectively, "but I always used to think that if only I was slimmer everything in my life would be all right. I didn't realize until it happened that it would just open up a whole new set of problems." ~Maxine

W. Soliman

#55. The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn't appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize how deliberate and thoughtful they are. There are great American actors, too, don't get me wrong, but the technique that British actors have is something really special.

Frank Spotnitz

#56. I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Alanis Morissette

#57. Are you ... " "Lovers? Yes, occasionally," Diana said calmly. I blushed. "I'm sorry, I didn't realize. Are you mad at me?" "Why? Am I jealous? No. I love the butterfly. That doesn't make me jealous of the flowers.

Mark Henwick

#58. He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.

Alexandra Robbins

#59. Often the biggest dreamers get hurt the most. They were pure in their insanity and in their isolation. They were living the dream amongst themselves and didn't realize it. It's when they invited the public inside their world that everything went wrong.

Harmony Korine

#60. Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.

Jennifer Aniston

#61. I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.

Benny Green

#62. There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.

Tom Brokaw

#63. What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars - he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off - but on a global scale!

Ernest Cline

#64. I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

Joanna Newsom

#65. Remember what I told you about your journey. You need to be fearless because every road you travel on will bring something about yourself that you didn't know or realize. Now it's up to you to take what you realized and find safety within yourself.

Sandi Lynn

#66. Vivianca called me to see how you liked the cookies. I didn't realize I was supposed to share. So here I am, milady, with cookies and a glass of warm milk for you.

Melissa McClone

#67. It wasn't that I didn't know anyone's phone number - I didn't - it was that only at this moment did I realize I had no one to call. There wasn't a woman, a colleague, or even a relative that I had to contact. Didn't I have a single friend?

Adam Johnson

#68. I didn't yet perceive the way everything that happens is connected-didn't realize that opening a door that led to outside exploration would inevitably open a door to the unexplored places inside myself.

Cameron Dokey

#69. When their voices didn't reach my ears,
I rebelled against my own skin
too young to realize that without their
stories I would starve.

Kiana Davis

#70. The rush of adrenaline helped. Not a lot. I still needed a caffeine fix, but at least I was awake enough to realize I quite possibly had my underwear on inside out. Something didn't feel right down yonder.

Darynda Jones

#71. When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

Guy Pearce

#72. I was scared. I was scared because I didn't realize how much I loved him until that moment. How much I couldn't live without him now. He was... my whole world now. I'd go anywhere. I'd do anything for him.

J.J. McAvoy

#73. I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me ... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it.

Christopher Hitchens

#74. When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn't really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.

Dirk Nowitzki

#75. After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

Ben Affleck

#76. What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Doris Lessing

#77. As smart as he was, though, I suspect even FDR didn't realize that once you created a bureaucracy, it took on a life of its own. It was almost impossible to close down a bureaucracy once it had been created.

Ronald Reagan

#78. I played the game, and now I have to pay the price. I didn't realize it was going to cost me my heart.

L.P. Dover

#79. We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.

Ariel Garten

#80. I didn't realize it at the time. I really didn't even think about it, until you. I couldn't figure out why you were so different to me.I know now that it's not right ... But it was something. It made me feel less ... lonely.

S.C. Stephens

#81. When you watch CNN and they're giving you news based on tweets that people are sending out, you realize that society is really changing. The collective public have a really big voice that they didn't previously have, and they're influencing the trajectory of how we are socially with one another.

Megan Fox

#82. She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

Holly Black

#83. I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

J.K. Simmons

#84. Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#85. I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Stuart Townsend

#86. He didn't need a curse to realize the desire of his heart was to fight the Horfins of this land, the Kravens, and the darkness that had swayed his brothers toward evil. He would continue to fight, continue to lead. Curse or no curse.

Madison Thorne Grey

#87. I don't think Henrietta suits anyone, she replied. Then she offered him her cheeky smile, and Alex saw in an instant why Dunford was falling like a rock for this girl. She had spirit, and although she didn't realize it yet, she had beauty, and Dunford didn't have a chance.

Julia Quinn

#88. When I didn't have a family, I was much more of a workaholic ... I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it's not fun, what's the point?

Ben Stiller

#89. As I ponder my pilgrim's progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn't make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn't the one driving.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#90. She was losing it. Needing to harden, hating that she was out of control and sloppy, she punched the leather. He needed to apologize. He needed to stop the fucking car and kiss her. She had to slap him. Eve didn't realize how badly she'd been craving this man.

Debra Anastasia

#91. When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#92. Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

Luanne Rice

#93. Rylie didn't realize how afraid she'd been until it drained out and left her weak. Gwyn stopped

S.M. Reine

#94. There comes a point in your life when you realize:
Who matters,
Who never did,
Who won't anymore,
And who always will.
So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

#95. Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

Wes Montgomery

#96. It didn't take me very long to realize that modeling wasn't very satisfying. I was always asking people, 'How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?' And they'd say, 'Stop. Just pose.' I had a problem with that.

Shay Mitchell

#97. It's funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked 'Doctor Who,' I didn't realize how deep the fan base was.

Chris Hardwick

#98. I'd always thought there was a great divide between a spirit and a ghost- I just didn't realize how small the gap was between the dead and the living

Jodi Picoult

#99. I didn't realize upping our relationship to phone buddies would come with a boyfriend title. Does that mean if we ever meet in person, we'll have to get married?

Kelly Oram

#100. I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

Oona Chaplin