Top 100 I Never Expected Quotes
#1. I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.
Melissa Bank
#2. I never said I wasn't Black ... I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.
Raven-Symone
#3. I'm afraid of losing you, I never expected I could be so stupidly afraid of losing you.
Sara Baume
#4. I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.
Mark Bradford
#5. When I crawled down the rabbit hole into the pivotal event of my life--indeed the pivotal event of my generation--to write "Escape from Saigon - a Novel" I never expected it to be such an emotional journey into a life I left four decades ago.
Dick Pirozzolo
#6. As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
Mark McKinnon
#7. I came here looking to finish school quietly. Stay out of trouble. Maybe write some new songs. I never expected you.
Anonymous
#8. I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.
Tim Ward
#9. I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
O. Winston Link
#10. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.
Erin Wasson
#11. I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent
childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't.
Michelle Richmond
#12. My childhood was so inconsistent that I never expected normalcy, and it's enough for me to be able to have time and space to be good to myself and the people around me. Children are nice, but I decided to save myself instead.
Meghan Daum
#13. When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.
Shuji Nakamura
#14. The reason I'm really appreciative of everything that's going on around me is because of the fact that I never expected it, and I want to keep that attitude.
Selena
#15. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.
Jocelyn Gibb
#16. I never expected to live this long.
Bob Saget
#17. I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.
David Kirschner
#19. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable.
W. Somerset Maugham
#20. I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
Dwight Gooden
#21. When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.
Patti Smith
#22. I didn't mean for any of this to happen."
"Any of what?"
"Any of that." He pointed at the bed, as I had. "That was something ... beautiful. Something miraculous and incredible. I never expected that. I never expected to fall for you, Kyrie St. Claire. But I have.
Jasinda Wilder
#24. I hang my head over these knuckles, over these pale, veined wrists which I hardly recognize as mine, finding myself overcome by a new enemy, one I never expected: the chill of old age.
Uvi Poznansky
#25. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#26. I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.
Billy Bob Thornton
#27. You are everything I never expected. Never anticipated. Everything I never knew I'd need.
A.L. Jackson
#28. I never expected i, in the first place, when I started playing tennis, that I would ever carry the flag into the Olympic Stadium for an Olympic Games ... So for me that was a surprise and a huge honor in my life to be able to represent Switzerland.
Roger Federer
#29. Did you never think of children then? Ours?" His voice was thick with emotion. "I never expected in the whole of my life that God would be so generous as to give me you. I did not think to ask for more.
Deanna Raybourn
#30. I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
Robert Smith
#31. I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.
Peter Higgs
#32. I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.
Audrey Hepburn
#33. I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.
Robert Battle
#34. On that very first day, when I queued up, in the thousands, I never expected to get very far
Cher Lloyd
#35. I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [ Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a different host every week and different musicians. I always thought, "This is great. I never expected to get this in the first place, so I'm just happy being here."
Kevin Nealon
#36. I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.
David Chalmers
#37. It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!
Kathryn Tucker Windham
#38. Liz, I didn't expect to fall for you, not like this ... not so completely. And I never expected for you to fall for me too. But here we are. Let's see where this goes. Let's see how far left there is to fall.
Rachel Higginson
#39. My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Kate Winslet
#40. Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat ... But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.
Tom Hanks
#41. It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.
Mike McCarthy
#42. I look up into his face and catch a glimpse of an emotion I never expected to see. His hazel eyes are warm, his mouth is tender. He looks like a man in love.
Philippa Gregory
#43. I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.
Ruben Studdard
#44. I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#45. This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.
Rob Corddry
#46. I never expected anything to be given to me.
Taylor Swift
#48. I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don't know how you ever lived without them. How you went about your day and hung out with your friends and fucked other people without having this one important person in your life." Garrett Graham
Elle Kennedy
#49. Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
Calvin Harris
#50. I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!
Clay Aiken
#51. I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.
A. Zavarelli
#52. Prozac, too made me want to weep. Prozac, too, was grief, because it returned me to the regular world with consequences I never expected.
Lauren Slater
#53. When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.
Bob Newhart
#54. Callan took a deep breath. "I never expected you." He shook his head with an edge of amusement. "You are a dangerous woman, Merinus Tyler."
"Naw, just a determined woman." She grinned against his shoulder. "I know a good thing when I see it jacking off.
Lora Leigh
#55. I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
Courtney Love
#56. Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?
Douglas Coupland
#57. I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
Lynn Shelton
#58. I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But ... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'
Buck Owens
#59. I always thought that I was a good swimmer, you know? That in a sink or swim situation I would rise to the top. But the truth is I was drowning. I was sinking fast and you threw me a lifeline. I never expected to love you. But you saved my life. How could I not?
Rachel Hayes
#60. I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
Gary Clark Jr.
#62. Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'
Charles McCarry
#63. I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
Marian Dragulescu
#65. Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.
Phil Klay
#66. I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.
Bob Ainsworth
#67. He studies me thoughtfully. "You are a beautiful queen, Elisa," he says voice pitched low.
I never expected he would say such a thing. "A month or two of pastries will fix that," I say. Then I smile to show him I mean it flippantly.
His expression does not change. "Even then.
Rae Carson
#68. I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.
Peggy Orenstein
#69. It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.
Corbin Bleu
#70. It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.
Mena Suvari
#71. I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
David Sedaris
#72. Laurelyn, I never expected to love you but I do ... with every fiber of my being.
Georgia Cates
#73. When I wrote 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School' I never expected it to be published. It was kind of a hobby. Now, it's a job, but it's a job I like very much.
Louis Sachar
#74. I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird' ... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
Harper Lee
#75. What I never expected is how much nothing there is afterwords. In life,, he was not nearby. Now he is everywhere I dream and every place I wake. Or if not him exactly, then a nothing so much like him I cannot seem to wish it goodnight.
Jim Moore
#76. I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
Maya Angelou
#77. I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.
John Trudell
#78. I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
James Frey
#79. I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year.
Chris Bosh
#80. Death by hanging ... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
#81. I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
Sarah Waters
#82. I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.
Gloria Steinem
#83. Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.
Shawn Johnson
#84. I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn
#85. I never thought meeting you would be this boring. I thought we'd put our Italian emotion into gear and scream the place down. I never expected indifference.
Melina Marchetta
#86. I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more
Alan Greenspan
#87. I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.
David Livermore
#88. People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!
Mark Hamill
#89. I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
Will Rogers
#90. I still think that I'm dreaming. It's a strange feeling. I always try to watch the final of Grand Slams because that's where the best players are playing ... I never expected to play a final. I never expected to win a Grand Slam. And right now I just did it.
Stan Wawrinka
#91. I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
Romesh Gunesekera
#92. I never expected my story to change, but it did. Stories tend to do that; you go out searching for something and come back with something different.
Katy Evans
#93. I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy
#94. Last night with Rhys. It was ... the first time in years that I felt so loved. For what I am, for my faults and my virtues, for my past and my future. I haven't had that with a man since ... since I had it with you. And I never expected to have it again.
Elizabeth George
#95. Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."
The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.
P.L. Travers
#96. I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.
Jill Scott
#97. -perhaps by sitting down to enjoy one of the microwavable organic TV dinners(four words I never expected to see conjoined)stacked in the frozen food case.
Michael Pollan
#98. I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
Paul Newman
#99. I would never have been discovered without the X Factor. I was just doing the working men's clubs and I loved doing that. That was the life for me at that time. I never expected to be noticed doing that, that's why I went for X Factor by myself.
Shayne Ward
#100. I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare to climb higher.
Marlon James
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