Top 100 I Never Imagined Quotes
#1. I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre up the road. So I plucked up courage and asked if I could watch rehearsals. It was like Heaven.
Lesley Nicol
#3. I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?
Kris Carr
#4. I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
Beyonce Knowles
#5. I never imagined you'd be so difficult," he muttered.
"Maybe that's why you're supposed to meet me when I'm unconscious. So I don't burst your bubble right away.
Sarah Cross
#6. My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.
Jenn Lyon
#7. When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year.
Jane Seymour
#8. I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
Sue Townsend
#10. Writing my own novels in the '90s ... I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Mary Doria Russell
#11. I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
Haley Bennett
#12. I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
Gerry Cooney
#13. Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.
Oprah Winfrey
#14. Froi thought for a moment. I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt lying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her.
Melina Marchetta
#15. I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.
Steffan Rhodri
#16. I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.
Joel Edgerton
#17. When I started my YouTube channel in 2010, I never imagined that one day it would be the most subscribed channel in the world and that I would be a part of such a great community.
PewDiePie
#18. I tell you now, my poppy, for years, I never thought I would again be happy. Never again." He tucked me closer and finished on a rough whisper. "So I never imagined I could be happier.
Kristen Ashley
#19. Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
Lance Reddick
#20. I never imagined losing my mind was going to be such hard work.
Tony Kushner
#21. I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
Donna Lynn Hope
#22. Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.
Susana Martinez
#23. My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else.
Dave Chappelle
#24. I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.
Morrissey
#25. I never imagined that something as solemn and final as death could be this idiotic. It was the keyhole through which I first glimpsed life's madness: the
institutions we believe in will pervert us, our loved ones will fail us, and death is a falling piano.
Anthony Marra
#26. Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering
Jancee Dunn
#27. I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.
Ewan McGregor
#28. I used to dream of escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
Ransom Riggs
#29. I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#30. I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.
Ben Sollee
#31. My name is Stephen Strange.
I am the Sorcerer Supreme.
I use magic to protect the world.
But I never imagined it was magic itself that would one day need my protection.
Jason Aaron
#32. I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
Kristen Stewart
#33. I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#34. I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about 'open source' thinking that I work under that banner.
Richard Stallman
#35. I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.
Sandra Bullock
#36. I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.
Danny Trejo
#37. I never thought it could be like this with someone. I never imagined that I would ever feel this connected to anyone, this whole.
I've never felt this terrified either.
Lara Adrian
#38. I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.
Aasif Mandvi
#39. I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event.
Dick Fosbury
#40. I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.
Yuichiro Miura
#41. I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.
Kristin Armstrong
#42. That man made me feel things I never imagined could be felt. He made me want things I wasn't sure I could have. He made me need things I didn't know existed.
Nicole Williams
#43. Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.
Susana Martinez
#44. I never imagined being undead would be so much work," Jeff lamented.
"Being a 'vampire' takes no work at all," Timothy emphasized vampire. "It's surviving that takes all the work.
Ben Tousey
#45. You gave me the courage to love. To dared to dream for things I never imagined were possible for me.
D.C. Akers
#46. I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.
David Mitchell
#47. But what I never imagined was that I'd find you.
Kim Holden
#48. When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction.
Augusten Burroughs
#49. I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.
Armin Zoggeler
#50. I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
Franz Kafka
#51. When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the whole thing terrifying. I cried myself to sleep once because I thought my teacher was going to give me the lead role. I never imagined acting was a viable career.
Emily Berrington
#52. I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies.
Simon Sinek
#53. I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.
Karlie Kloss
#54. I never imagined my life would be the way that it has been for the past 30 years. I have had the best experiences a person can have-and the worst as well.
Columba Bush
#55. If you play music for the right reasons, the rest of the things will come. The right reason to play music is that you love it. That's why I play music. I never imagined that I was going to be doing this, especially because I never thought of myself as an instrumentalist.
George Benson
#56. I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.
Anna Faris
#57. I'm already someone else, but the person I turn into at these low points is someone I never imagined I could be a few years ago: someone with a hot knot of fury where her heart used to be.
Harriet Lane
#58. I was excited that my films would finally see the light of day and people would see them. But I never imagined that such nice things would be said about a lot of my films.
Jessica Chastain
#59. I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I'm humbled that you chose me.
Abbi Glines
#60. It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.
Thomas Haden Church
#61. I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan
#62. I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.
Billy Graham
#63. We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
Arthur Golden
#64. Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.
Foxy Brown
#65. You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree."
One of the giants grinned at him.
Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?
Terry Pratchett
#66. When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
Jason Wu
#67. Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
Mathieu Amalric
#68. I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.
Luis Suarez
#69. I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
Stevie Wonder
#70. Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
Joe Nichols
#71. If you'd asked me after 'Band of Brothers' what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined 'Southland.'
Michael Cudlitz
#72. Lord, I don't understand it, but when a person does something wrong, it never feels wrong until later. It's never as evil as you'd imagined.
Michael Lee West
#73. I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.
Steve-O
#74. I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost.
Erik Fosnes Hansen
#75. My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.
Susan Hill
#76. I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.
Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.
Viola Shipman
#77. In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
Floyd Skloot
#78. I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
Steve Buscemi
#79. I can show you the union of pleasure and pain. I can make your body feel things you never imagined.
Roxy Sloane
#80. MIKE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Cus D'Amato, my mentor, friend, and general. Because of you, my life has reached heights I could never have imagined. Without you, I don't know where I would be today. My gratitude to you is immeasurable.
Mike Tyson
#81. I'd never given much too thought to how I would die- though I'd had reason enough in the last few months- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.
Stephenie Meyer
#82. For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.
Francois Mitterrand
#83. She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, Abbie, I'm going to take you to that bed and make love to you like you never imagined you'd be made love to again.
LaVyrle Spencer
#84. Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures.
Laila Lalami
#85. My patchwork life: quiet Sunday, coffee on Grace's breath, the unfamiliar landscape of the lumpy new scar on my arm, the dangerous smell of snow in the air. Two different worlds circling each other, getting closer and closer, knotting together in ways I'd never imagined.
Maggie Stiefvater
#86. I want something new. I want something I've never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.
Michael Soll
#87. I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
Stephen Hawking
#88. One of the many things I said was that Eliot Spitzer had one set of rules for himself and one set for everyone else. I never would have imagined it could be so glaring.
John Faso
#89. The model for tomorrow, and this is the model I've been using with enormous enthusiasm since I started blogging back in 2001, is to try everything. Make mistakes. Surprise ourselves. Try anything else. Fail. Fail better. And succeed in ways we never would have imagined a year or a week ago.
Neil Gaiman
#90. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.
Denis Johnson
#91. Real life is messy and hard and never turns out like I've imagined. Usually it's better. So, I try not to dream but rather to pray. If there is one thing I know, it's that I have no clue what I want. I'm fickle. I'm picky. And I'm scared of a lot of things. Especially commitment.
Katie Kiesler
#92. I love the way you taste and I want to pleasure you in ways you have never known," he breathes into my ear, making me wet. "Running my tongue along every inch of your body has been flooding my thoughts for days and I promise you I would do things you never even imagined.
Victoria Ashley
#93. Why are we talking about this?" Tsukuru said, half to himself, trying to sound upbeat. "I've never talked to anybody about this before, and never planned to." Sara smiled faintly. "Maybe you needed to talk with somebody. More than you ever imagined.
Haruki Murakami
#94. What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.
Ayushee Ghoshal
#95. Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'
Neil Peart
#96. I felt stuck in a Sisyphean loop, writing the same press release over and over. Even more, I was tired of promoting other people's creations instead of creating something myself. I imagined myself on my deathbed, and I could hear my biggest regret: I never even tried to be a writer.
Helene Wecker
#97. My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.
Damian Kulash
#98. Funnily enough, I was a big fan of the show and had been watching it - along with everybody else - and had never imagined that I would be on it. You kind of look at shows and think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that one.' But I didn't really see myself on 'True Blood.'
Denis O'Hare
#99. First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
Bo Jackson
#100. I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.
Gloria Allred
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