I Had No Idea Quotes

#1. I spent my entire life being afraid. I was afraid of everything - height, flights - I had no idea why.

Shari Arison

#2. Last night. I couldn't put that book down. I was awake till four this morning finishing it. I didn't know reading could be like that, I had no idea.

Jill Mansell

#3. Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

Donna Rice

#4. I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.

Bern Will Brown

#5. When I eventually met Mr. Right, I had no idea his first name was Always.

Rita Rudner

#6. I'd underestimated him. I assumed anyone who started out gut-punching you in an elevator couldn't have all that much else in his arsenal. For instance, I had no idea he could smile, let alone at such an inappropriate time.

Jonathan Lethem

#7. I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such a name. I'm sure he must've thought that was quite funny. He must've known from that autograph, right off the bat, that I had no idea who he was.

Shania Twain

#8. The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea - and please excuse me - that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I've done that - very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing!

Emma Watson

#9. Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.

Cathy Freeman

#10. You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.'
Halt gave him a long-suffering look. 'I might have been more accurate to say a joker.'
Whatever you say.

John Flanagan

#12. As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Peter Snell

#13. I was a fool. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But I
have to say, it's been incredibly rewarding and I learn so much every
day.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#14. I had no idea how to live a day without her next to me. How to breathe without her by my side.

Tillie Cole

#15. One day, I'm going to get to the bottom of you, Charley Davidson."
I had no idea she was into anal.

Darynda Jones

#16. The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

Hilma Af Klint

#17. I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

Arielle Ford

#18. His dinner included three hamburgers and two orders of fries. I had no idea where those calories went. To his ego, maybe?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#19. But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I'd heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.

Nicholas Dawidoff

#20. Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.

Jim Lynch

#21. When I first saw Spiderman, I had no idea who he was. I later read in an article that he doesn't work much because he only picks projects he believes in.

Tobey Maguire

#22. WE APPROXIMATE THE BIRD'S BODY BY A SPHERE OF RADIUS 5CM, said Sib, I had no idea aerodynamics was so entertaining

Helen DeWitt

#23. I couldn't let myself depend on him getting me all hot and bothered so I could sing to the throb between my legs. I had no idea how much longer he'd drag me around by the panties, but it surely wouldn't be long enough to make a career.

C.D. Reiss

#24. Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

Hamish Bowles

#25. Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*.

Thom Yorke

#26. Don't you have any clothes?"
"Quite honestly, no I don't."
"Cover yourself up!"
"Fine." There was a rustling sound. "Okay I'm covered. I had no idea you were such a prude.

Michelle Rowen

#27. I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

Claes Oldenburg

#28. I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.

James L. Brooks

#29. They sold me a duvet cover, and I don't have a duvet, I don't think. Then, they started treating me like I'm the idiot. They're like, 'Do you have a comforter?' 'Yeah.' 'Well, you have to protect it!' I had no idea it was under attack.

Alonzo Bodden

#30. I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive.

Piper Kerman

#31. How could I be such an open book to him when, half the time, I had no idea what was milling around in his head?

Khaled Hosseini

#32. I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was the novel I wanted to write, and got a couple of good reviews but no real traction. I had no idea how to get a job in TV.

Nic Pizzolatto

#33. At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Jonathan Carroll

#34. Other than an apparant Underworld gate, I had no idea what was in Kansas. Hay bales? Dorothy?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#35. I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.

Jeremy Sisto

#36. I never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.

Boy George

#37. When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

Wendy Kopp

#38. I had no idea there'd be so many Sherpas aboard!" exclaimed Miss Simpkins.
"I'm not a Sherpa," Nadira said. "I'm a gypsy."
"Oh, my goodness!" said the chaperone.

Kenneth Oppel

#39. Hello little one. Did you know you're on private property?"

"Really? I had no idea." Meryn fudged.

He raised an eyebrow. "The ten foot fence right behind you didn't give it away?

Alanea Alder

#40. George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea.

Britt Robertson

#41. Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

Valerie Simpson

#42. When I moved to SF in my early 20s, I loved it, but I was absolutely astonished to discover that people there hated L.A. I was just like why? Really? I had no idea.

Matthew Specktor

#43. It was decided. I was going to let Ryan Foster do me. I had no idea when it would happen, but it was inevitable. If he kept being this cute, it was inevitable.

S. Walden

#44. I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?

Tom Shroder

#45. Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend's girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

Haruki Murakami

#46. I had no idea In-N-Out was going to fall on my lap as soon as it did.

Lynsi Torres

#47. Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of "Tomorrow's Shoes," but I could only fit "TOMS" on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it's an idea for a better tomorrow.

Blake Mycoskie

#48. I had no idea that such individuals existed outside of stories. A STUDY IN SCARLET, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Brittany Cavallaro

#49. My hands begin to shake as I read the past due notice. The mortgage hasn't been paid in two months. I had no idea Doug hadn't been paying it. Add it to the long list of things my husband had been hiding from me.

Ren Monterrey

#50. An hour later and a faint movement caught my eye. Mum was weakly flapping her hand, beckoning me to her. I had no idea how long she had been trying to attract my attention. As I bent over to catch her last words she whispered, 'turn that bloody music off

Laura Marney

#51. When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do.

Robert Plant

#52. Of all the people in the crowded six hundred fifty-capacity gymnasium, I was the one to hit his radar. I had no idea how to deal with the attention. So, I pretty much functioned in freak mode.

Linda Kage

#53. Good Gad! It looks like the last act of Hamlet in here.
Turnip banged his head against his clenched fists, making inarticulate moaning noises.
Pinchingdale gave him an odd look. 'I had no idea you felt so strongly about the play, Fitzhugh.

Lauren Willig

#54. I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

Vashti Bunyan

#55. I had no idea I could make it this far. And the fact that they told me I made it this far and that America is going to vote for me, I freaked out.

Casey Abrams

#56. I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.

Robert Indiana

#57. Donald Trump refuses to give details about his policy plans. Trump apologized by saying, 'When I announced I was running for president, I had no idea people would take me seriously.'

Conan O'Brien

#58. I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.

David Walton

#59. At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

Carine Roitfeld

#60. As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I'd have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I'd be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.

Julie Carmen

#61. I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

Sally Kirkland

#62. I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were ... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

Ayumi Hamasaki

#63. I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.

Lou Brock

#64. I had no idea Canada could be so much fun.

Bruce Willis

#65. I practically left my skin in a puddle on the floor. Seriously?! A man's voice echoed in the cavern, and I had no idea where he was. I fought the urge to run screaming around the cellar like a beheaded chicken with vocal cords, then took a deep breath and winced.

April White

#66. I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.

J. D. Souther

#67. I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began.

Gabriel Campisi

#68. The relief was tremendous. I did not feel sick anymore. The pain had gone...I had no idea I was so empty.

Daphne Du Maurier

#69. I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.

Mark Boal

#70. This funny little film we did called 'Sharknado' has caused so much buzz, I would have never imagined. It's literally caused more buzz than anything else I've ever done. I had no idea that it was going to turn into this phenomenon.

Cassie Scerbo

#71. He might as well have been telling me to build a damn rocketship. I had no idea what to do.

Amanda Hocking

#72. I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

Amy Poehler

#73. I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

Ewan McGregor

#74. Time did not exist; I had no idea of how many minutes had passed. And what was time but merely a wind that never stopped?

Tan Twan Eng

#75. I called my wife into my office, because I needed to tell her that I had a 24-year-old son, although we have been married for 28 years. I had no idea what her reaction would be, but I had to hope for the best.

Shvonne Latrice

#76. I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.

Bill Murray

#77. The road to rock and roll Heaven is paved by the bleached skulls of guys like me. I had no idea such things were nearly impossible.

Greg Kihn

#78. The girl I'd been just an hour ago was gone; she'd been obliterated. I had no idea who I was, now.

Amy Hatvany

#79. I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?

Anna Chlumsky

#80. The candy melted smoothly and easily on my tongue. I had no idea anything in the world could taste like that. I thought i would turn to stone right there.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#81. Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

Scott Lynch

#82. I had no idea I'd end up writing four books when I completed 'Mortal Engines.' I didn't even think it would find a publisher.

Philip Reeve

#83. I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I just know the good Lord blessed me with ability, blessed me with good eyesight and a good pair of hands, and then I worked at the rest.

Tony Gwynn

#84. I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

Morgan Spurlock

#85. Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

Jeanette Winterson

#86. It was as if a tiny crack had opened somewhere in him and was growing, tearing him to pieces. If he had simply been angry, I might have found a way to calm him, but I had no idea how to put him back together once he came apart.

Yoko Ogawa

#87. For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

Adam Gopnik

#88. I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored ... I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I'm just as amazed as anyone else.

Ysabella Brave

#89. I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.

Yasmina Khadra

#90. When I started 'Record Collection,' I had no idea that it would come out sounding the way that it did, and that's one of the best things about the creative process, taking turns with the things you didn't know.

Mark Ronson

#91. I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

J. B. Smoove

#92. I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

Ace Frehley

#93. I had no idea what the future held or what waited for me at the end of this grueling journey and yet, somehow, I wasn't miserable. I'd been lonely my whole life, but I'd never been truly alone before, and it wasn't nearly as scary as I'd imagined.

Leigh Bardugo

#94. Listen to me," he said, and to her dismay he stepped closer. "When I first met you," he said, "I had no idea you were one of us. How could I? But I knew that you were different than that phony friend of yours. Not just another pretty girl, but somebody special.

L.J.Smith

#95. I had no idea why I was still holding the gun on her. Normally, nice women with no hidden agenda whatsoever didn't scare me. It was weird.

Darynda Jones

#96. I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

Don Johnson

#97. I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

Jason Aldean

#98. I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Carrie Fisher

#99. I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped - when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

Chip Kidd

#100. I pulled him tighter as I lay back down. I had no idea where we went from here. No fucking clue what happened tomorrow. But for tonight, Adam was in my arms. And everything was okay.

Spencer Spears