Top 100 Didn't Realize Quotes
#1. I know we only talked once-"
"But it meant something to you." Our eyes met for only an instant. "It meant something to me, too. I just didn't realize - Well, I thought it was only me.
Claudia Gray
#2. I knew you were crazy, but I didn't realize that you were out of your goddamned mind!!
Cassandra Clare
#3. It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.
Judi Dench
#4. Song, songs kept them going and going; They didn't realize the millions of seeds they were sowing. They were singing in marches, even singing in jail. Songs gave them the courage to believe they would not fail.
Pete Seeger
#5. I love being a mom - I really do! I didn't realize how much I would love it!
Autumn Reeser
#6. But Mama was so mad at the insurance company that even though he used words like "flaming assholes" she didn't realize till later that he was cussing: she said she thought he was quoting the Psalms.
David James Duncan
#7. When Zoe didn't answer he glanced over to find her watching him with an almost pitying expression. He shot her a scowl. Obviously she didn't realize that SEALs didn't deal well with pity.
Kaylea Cross
#8. I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
Faith Hill
#9. I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
Naomi Benaron
#11. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.
Karin Slaughter
#12. I idolized my mother. I didn't realize she was a lousy cook until I went into the army.
Jackie Gayle
#13. Come on," I say. "Dance with me now." "I didn't realize you danced." "I don't," I say. "But someone wise once told me that for the right woman, you've gotta be willing to do anything.
J.M. Darhower
#14. When the president during the campaign
said he was against nation building,
I didn't realize he meant our nation.
Al Franken
#15. When you said we were clandestine I didn't realize you meant literally underground, you could have warned me.
Mark A. McCormick
#16. I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.
Frederick Lenz
#17. The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.
Sidney Sheldon
#18. I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.
Kiefer Sutherland
#19. People didn't realize that pastors, preachers, teachers, worship leaders, poured out so much of themselves, they needed the opportunity to be filled back up, too.
Candice Y. Johnson
#20. My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.
LeBron James
#21. We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
A. J. McLean
#22. My dad and I are very different people. For example, he's been stabbed; I'm afraid of bugs. He's a mechanic; I once had to exchange a "broken" rental car because I didn't realize I was driving around with the parking brake on. I could keep going, but you get it.
Jason Mulgrew
#23. I didn't realize you were a man of faith." "My people have a rich spiritual heritage," Chakotay said. "I spent many years refusing to appreciate it, but, like most truths, it found me eventually and held me.
Kirsten Beyer
#24. I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.
John Corey Whaley
#25. For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.
Diane Ackerman
#26. I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.
William Shatner
#27. What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.
Jodie Foster
#28. It was those damn wool socks. He didn't realize he loved her until she
told him about out-negotiating a god of war - the most haggle-loving of the
gods - with socks!
G.A. Aiken
#29. It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.
Siva Vaidhyanathan
#30. I didn't realize at the moment exactly what I had done ... I only realized the enormity of it when I walked into the press room and got a long standing ovation.It wasn't until I came out of my daze that I began to appreciate my
accomplishment.
Al Geiberger
#31. I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.
Les Claypool
#32. I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Amy Tan
#33. I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.
Chandra Wilson
#34. What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.
Stephen King
#35. You're the man who stands on the street corner with a roll of toilet paper, and written on each square are the words, 'I love you.' And each passer-by, no matter who, gets a square all his or her own. I don't want my square of toilet paper.'
I didn't realize it was toilet paper.
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour!
Carey Mulligan
#37. Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.
Jessi Kirby
#38. My entire life sucked." He nuzzles his chin into my hair. "And I didn't realize it until I met you.
Cynthia Sax
#39. I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.
Nick D'Aloisio
#40. You should sit," Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy.
Sascha stared at him. "I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright."
"It makes me incapable of reason.
Nalini Singh
#41. I've been in love with you for damn-near my entire life, and the only regret I have is that I didn't realize it sooner.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#42. Sometimes you care and love people but they didn't realize it. they realize it, when you stop caring or loving them but then, everything is meaningless
Qasim Habib
#43. Apparently they didn't realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We
Elizabeth Moon
#44. My type, which I didn't realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.
Derek Hough
#45. Don't hate me."
"Does anybody?"
"Kevin's old high school girlfriend."
"Because she's a slut."
Jenny beamed. "I didn't realize you knew Candy.
Nora Roberts
#46. It's been a long time since I dared to get close to anyone, and I didn't realize letting down my guard could ache like this. I'm facedown in the ocean, and she's the lifeboat.
Sarina Bowen
#47. When I married Mr. Right, I didn't realize his first name was ALWAYS.
Jill Kargman
#48. Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!
Charlyne Yi
#49. It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.
David Pajo
#50. I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world.
Lisa Loeb
#51. I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
Andrew Mason
#52. What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
Imran Khan
#53. You know," he said by way of greeting, "the night I caught you with Layne, I called you a future felon. I didn't realize you'd make good on that prediction so quickly."
"That night you dragged Layne out of my driveway, I called you an asshole. Guess we were both right.
Brigid Kemmerer
#54. I didn't realize until now how starved I've been for human closeness.
Suzanne Collins
#55. Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
Douglas Wilson
#56. Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
Jewel
#57. Here's the thing about global warming that I didn't realize: it would all happen at once.
Jon Stewart
#58. I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
Veronica Roth
#59. I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.
Cheryl Strayed
#60. I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
Mark Shields
#61. I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
Wanda Jackson
#62. What I mean is,how does he somehow know to show me things I didn't realize I needed to see, or take me places I wouldn't have guessed I needed to go?
Jessi Kirby
#63. I live in L.A. - I love L.A., first off - but I didn't realize how much better the air quality was in Vancouver until I went back to L.A. for a weekend and I literally felt like I was breathing fire.
Emma Bell
#64. He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.
Patrick Rothfuss
#65. The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
Dwayne Johnson
#66. He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.
Nick Price
#67. I've been numb for years, and I didn't realize it until after you appeared and - and made me feel something. Since then, these past two weeks I've been awake. Alive. Restless for you to return - and afraid that you wouldn't.
Alexandra Monir
#68. You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.
Moonlight Graham
#70. What I didn't realize was that I didn't have to be normal--I just had to be me, my father's child, carrying out God's plan.
Nick Vujicic
#71. She blew out the breath she didn't realize she'd been holding.
Laura Kaye
#72. People still come to Baltimore and say, "I didn't realize you made documentaries."
John Waters
#73. She obviously didn't realize the depth and breadth of the stories I could tell without touching the things I didn't want her to know.
C.D. Reiss
#74. We didn't realize it at the time, but what we carried with us were colorful, stringers-full of memories, which now hang in our heads like trophy trout above the fireplace mantel.
Dan Adams
#75. You didn't realize how much work everyone else put into holding themselves upright until you saw Levi leaning against a wall. He looked like he was leaning on something even when he wasn't. He made standing look like vertical lying down.
Rainbow Rowell
#76. I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that ... but that's what it did.
Edward Ruscha
#77. I'd assume love was safe, like ordering the same thing at a restaurant every single time. I didn't realize that it could be a greasy roadside sandwich and vomiting, followed by a conversation that made time slow down and my heart speed up.
Alicia Thompson
#78. Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word
death? Dying? Dead?
Do you think I was being stupid? Naive?
Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me.
I thought I would live forever too.
Lauren Oliver
#79. I remember some students in my high school who complained about the compulsory history classes. Young as we were, we didn't realize that the course was a privilege only countries at peace can afford. Elsewhere,
Kim Thuy
#80. I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.
William Monahan
#81. Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But
Ilona Andrews
#82. the princess locked herself away in the highest tower, hoping a knight in shining armor would come to her rescue. - i didn't realize i could be my own knight.
Amanda Lovelace
#83. I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.
Mike Yaconelli
#84. I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything. Before I went in to read with the director, I read the first book and I loved it. I didn't realize how good the writing was. And then I went in and read with Gary Ross, and that was it.
Liam Hemsworth
#85. You never knew when God would send you just what you needed, sometimes even when you didn't realize you were missing anything in the first place. You just had to keep your eyes-and mind-open to the possibilities.
Mia Ross
#86. I was always inspired by restaurants like La Tulipe in Manhattan. You'd walk right by and say, 'Oh what a lovely house.' You didn't realize there was a restaurant behind the door.
Charlie Trotter
#87. Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
Hugh Grant
#88. Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.
Zac Efron
#89. Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.
Jermaine Dupri
#90. I didn't realize how good I was with technology until I met my parents ... my dad told me "You're good; you should be a computer programmer." I said, "You're bad ... you should be a caveman."
Mike Birbiglia
#91. People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.
S.H. Kolee
#92. I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.
Khloe Kardashian
#93. With all of those events, I didn't realize I was seeing something amazing for the first and last time. And I'm saying that those things, those random, crazy surprises that have nothing to do with life decisions or your past or your future, might be worth sticking around for.
Anne Frasier
#94. I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.
Lorraine Bracco
#95. Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing.
Rick Riordan
#96. When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
Gloria Stuart
#97. When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
Napoleon Hill
#98. I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
IO Tillett Wright
#99. I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.
Mark Teixeira
#100. Boyfriend huh? I didn't realize we had taken things to that level."
"Oh, I'm sorry
this is my first undercover operation," Jordan said. "I'm a little unclear about the rules. Are we seeing other people in this fake relationship?
Julie James
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