Top 100 Guessed Quotes
#1. The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.
Joel Burns
#2. I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
Vernor Vinge
#3. It was so nice that Simon was here for it - tell him I enjoyed every minute - ' it was glorious writing that - almost like telling him I was glad he'd kissed me. But after I'd posted the letter I was worried in case he guessed what I'd meant.
Dodie Smith
#4. In a few short months, I had gone from a friendly, optimistic, confident woman to a confused girl with a nervous stammer who second-guessed every thought that went through her head and rationalized every bad decision she made.
Holly Madison
#5. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her ... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#6. He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
Thomas Carlyle
#7. You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.
Margaret Mitchell
#8. Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
Norm MacDonald
#9. ... you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind.
Daphne Du Maurier
#10. She finally guessed that the Englischers didn't live such an exciting life after all. They just wanted to live vicariously through the lives of others.
Sarah Price
#11. Evan guessed what the monster was going to do a second before it happened. He seized Jed's collar and pulled him down as the Psyking spewed forth a torrent of icy vapour.
The frost fire stuck the rock behind them, turning it into an icicle.
Will Collins
#12. And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)
Rebecca Goldstein
#13. Maybe I'd already guessed that the physics of us didn't defy any laws of gravity, and with her, there was always an equal and opposite reaction.
Robyn Schneider
#14. What are you planning?" "I think you've already guessed," I said. "I have spent the last thirty-six hours digging the world's longest grave, and now I'm going to bury you in your fucking Cadillac." The
Stephen King
#15. Um ... is that thing tame?" Frank said.
The horse whinnied angrily.
"I don't think so," Percy guessed. "He just said, 'I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man'.
Rick Riordan
#16. I always sat in the front so I could see the blackboard - I guessed I was probably nearsighted, not that we could afford an eye exam, much less glasses.
Mia Sheridan
#17. Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
C.S. Lewis
#18. Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to?
Ian McEwan
#19. Something crossed his face, a pure motion like wind over water
I couldn't have guessed what emotion it was. "I'll miss you," he said.
Susan Choi
#20. Plum guessed it stood to reason that out of all these billions of books at least one of them had to be dragon porn.
Lev Grossman
#21. He could get back to the world," Thalia supplied, "and bring the sword to Kronos." "Who would use it to raise his brothers from Tartarus," I guessed. "And we'd be in big trouble.
Rick Riordan
#22. Driving from Denver, the deforestation we saw was absolutely amazing," Emma added. "Deforestation?" "Not a tree in sight for as far as the eye could see. I guessed they were all cut down for your log cabins. We all took pictures out the bus window, American greed.
Mike Faricy
#23. Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed?
Shana Abe
#24. We've been half right about a lot of things, but there's something missing from our theories, something whose nature we haven't even guessed yet. If we don't learn to understand it, it will kill us.
Greg Egan
#25. My husband," Amaranthe said.
"Really! I would have guessed bodyguard."
Yes, even without visible weapons, he had that aura.
Lindsay Buroker
#26. Who could have guessed at the dawn of the 21st century, the seminal technology upon which 5000 years of modern science had resulted was the click?
Ken Goldstein
#27. As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
William Manchester
#28. She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.
Bob Seger
#29. Funny, she had always thought that thin, bespectacled, intellectual types like Brian attracted her. Lora had to smile at her own naivete. Who would have guessed that she, Lora Harding, would buckle at the knees over a hunk of male beef?
Karen Robards
#30. I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?
Hal Varian
#31. Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.
Doug Harvey
#32. She wore a boiled shirt and a bow-tie, and her hair, though long and bound, was sleek with oil. She was about two- or three-and-thirty, and her waist was thick; but her upper lip, at least, was dark as a boy's. They would have called her terribly handsome, I guessed, in about 1880.
Sarah Waters
#33. Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.
Mitch Albom
#35. I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.
Dee Williams
#36. If you have not guessed my name by month's end, then you shall be mine!
Edward Clodd
#37. David knew we were meeting in the Kettle," said Genya," and he guessed about the master flue."
David frowned. "I don't guess.
Leigh Bardugo
#38. I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
Pico Iyer
#39. Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.
John Hagelin
#40. Well, you devious little woman you. Do you know what I do to wily women?
"You ... leave them panting and oneless after a world-class orgasm?" she guessed.
"Why yes. Yes, ma'am, I do." Picking her up, I carried her back to my room and kicked the door shut behind me.
Linda Kage
#41. She smiled at me sadly and gripped my hand. She had realized she had no need to hide from me what I had guessed straight away, that she had had a slight stroke.
Marcel Proust
#42. A fight with her mother? It was certainly within the realm of possibility, I guessed. Elizabeth was a teenager and her mother was ... well, her mother. Normally they were the best of friends, but even best friends fight.
James Patterson
#43. How did I guess? From you ... I mean, you look pregnant." "No, I don't! No one else has guessed!" "They must have. It's completely obvious!
Sophie Kinsella
#44. And that, I guessed, was the aim of the Lord Chamberlain's Men: to serve up rich helpings of life to their audiences, to introduce them to people they would never otherwise meet, to stretch their minds and heart to fill a greater world.
J.B. Cheaney
#45. I'm the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set!
Frank Zappa
#46. That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#47. That was one of the things she loved about him. He assumed she could walk and chew gum at the same time. He nevef second-guessed her, and he didn't try to change her. He accepted
Jill Shalvis
#48. The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
T. S. Eliot
#49. ... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.
Fred Gipson
#50. It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
Arthur C. Clarke
#51. Even funnier, the guy at the front desk thinks I am either a hooker or having an affair with a married man. He was more than discrete."
"I would have guessed affair," I joked.
Andrea Heltsley
#52. Dandy, Martin replied, once again pleased with his response. A girl can make a guy feel good, great, and even fabulous, but how often does a lady hear that her man is feeling dandy?
Not often, he guessed.
Matthew Dicks
#53. We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.
Aryn Kyle
#54. it was all so new to her, he guessed.
Anne Tyler
#55. At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?
Kevin Keegan
#56. He guessed plenty of kids had gone off to plenty of wars with that same excited gonna-kick-some-ass look on their faces.
Stephen King
#57. My insides contract- bad. "who are you?" I ask right out loud. And he says what I've been afraid of since I killed Lester's father. Haven't you guessed? I'm you. The real you.
Bonnie Shimko
#58. Knut, this is Jude. Remember I told you about him? He writes poetry." Knut looked my half-Japanese self up and down. "Haiku?" he guessed. "Gesundheit," I muttered sourly.
J.L. Merrow
#59. I never would have guessed that matches and lighters would be among the things I'd miss the most if civilization collapsed
Mike Mullin
#60. Kezia could've guessed from the soapy scent wafting over her shoulder. Soap and something else. The XY factor that made some men smell so good you just wanted to lick the nearest inch of available skin.
Tracey Alvarez
#61. Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow.
W.P. Kinsella
#62. shall." I think I finally guessed then what
Robin Hobb
#63. Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.
Tom Rath
#64. A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
Frank A. Clark
#65. My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
Amy Hempel
#66. She had known for months now that something or someone would have to break to end this painful stalemate they were locked in. She had never guessed it would be Dominic. She had never guessed Dominic could be broken.
Laura Andersen
#67. They're all Allomancers," Waxillium guessed. "More than that," Wayne said. "They're all relatives." "It's only been three hundred years since the Originators, Wayne. We're all relatives." "Does that mean you'll take responsibility for me?" "No.
Brandon Sanderson
#68. Who would've guessed that by simply eliminating GMOs from my diet, I could lose 20 pounds, drop my blood pressure by 40 points, and level out my blood sugar levels...all in just 21 days!
Brett Allen
#69. Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?
Andrew Davidson
#70. I was never sure what vampire powers Teddy had been gifted with. Victoria had the ability to read minds. Meekah could see visions of the future. Michael had been given eternal sexiness, I guessed.
S.J. Wright
#71. But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#72. Mal did as he was told without a backward glance at any of them. Tom did see him hold up his middle finger as he left.
He guessed it was kind of like his gang sign. Or his message to the entire world.
S.E. Jakes
#73. should have been looking for concealed weapons or drugs. She guessed from the intel picture it was Shelly. Her low-cut top displayed her prominent chest bones and was decorated
Caroline Mitchell
#74. No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
Olaf Stapledon
#75. That's right. I, Jamie Baker, the world's only superpowered girl, come complete with supersenses, deadly lightning bolts, and - you guessed it - the ability to superkiss someone.
Evildoers of the world, beware.
Kelly Oram
#76. The pain'll start creeping in again by midnight, but that should give us enough time to talk this through." He sipped again and gave me a look of rueful amusement. "Human things are terrific right to the end, it seems like. I never would have guessed.
Stephen King
#77. The Skeleton
Chattering finch and water-fly
Are not merrier than I;
Here among the flowers I lie
Laughing everlastingly.
No: I may not tell the best;
Surely, friends, I might have guessed
Death was but the good King's jest,
It was hid so carefully.
G.K. Chesterton
#78. They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't have to wait.
Elaine Hussey
#79. he guessed they all knew what he'd done and counted him foolish for blatantly going against their boss. Well, he reasoned as he dropped his jacket over the high back of his chair, there was a Bible verse about the world's wisdom being foolish in the sight of God.
Kim Vogel Sawyer
#80. She nodded seriously. "That's as much as I've guessed too." She paused to look at the circle the horizon made around us. The wind caught her hair and she brushed it back again. "Do you happen to know where I'm going?
Patrick Rothfuss
#81. Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.
Paula McLain
#82. She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.
Lurlene McDaniel
#83. Celeste, for example, was fuming. I guessed if you had a lot of money, you got used to the idea of collecting it. And the thought that someone like me would be
Kiera Cass
#84. Hugh's grunt sounded hollow in the night air. How dense of me not to have guessed the truth.
Sandra Ardoin
#85. Whose are these?" Sevro asks me. "Daddy's," I tell him. "So you guessed." Sevro laughs. "He's locked in Apollo's dungeons." "The stupid Pixie!" He laughs again.
Pierce Brown
#86. If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
Bill Veeck
#87. Everyone used to laugh at him because he was the first one to do it. This was all new to people and it took a bit for everyone to get used to it. Then ... yes, you've guessed, I too dyed my hair and other people followed suit as well and the punk explosion was about to hit the scene in a big way.
Stephen Richards
#88. I always thought that funerals were meant for the living to say good-bye to a loved one. I never would have guessed that it's actually the other way around.
Anthony Greer
#89. What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
Bo Burnham
#90. I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
Olivia De Havilland
#91. I guessed princesses-in-training didn't wear pants.
Kiera Cass
#92. The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.
George Washington
#93. Who would've guessed that, in this world, there were vampires, werewolves and specters lurking around every corner; that evil witches who lived for centuries were being burned to to death a few miles away?
Lily Luchesi
#94. Given that all three of us were Londoners, we paused a moment to carry out the ritual of the "valuation of the property." I guessed that, given the area, it was at least a million and change. "Million and a half, easy," said Carey. "More," said Guleed. "If it's freehold.
Ben Aaronovitch
#95. Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon
as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
Hortense Calisher
#96. I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?
Rick Riordan
#97. They know they've won," Carter guessed. "They're making a show of it."
"Yes," Amos said.
"Well, let's blow up the boats or something!" I said.
Amos looked at me. "Is that your strategy, honestly?
Rick Riordan
#98. The idea of "post-racism," just like that of "reverse racism," is really just a coded way of denying the existence of actual racism. And denying the existence of actual racism is really just another form of (you guessed it) racism.
Justin Simien
#99. Sleeping in the back of the van was cramped and a little stuffy-like sleeping in a compartment on a train, Kaitlyn guessed. But she didn't really mind being crowded in with Rob. He was warm and nice to hang on to. Comfortingly solid.
L.J.Smith
#100. Magnus knelt first. Clary would never have guessed that. Magnus was so proud, but then it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures. She doubted it would shame him to kneel when it meant nothing to him.
Cassandra Clare
