I Would Never Quotes

#1. The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Russell Baker

#2. I'm not in love with him. I would never call it that. It's more of a growing fascination with him. He's unlike anyone I've ever known, but he's maladjusted and broken - unpredictable and frightening.

Amy A. Bartol

#3. God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it again I would never leave that feeling, or him that gave it to me." - The Dreamer

James McBride

#4. She clucked her tongue at Sergei. "Father, you could have killed me."
"You know I would never do that. If I did, who would fetch my bread from the bakery every morning?

Evelyn Skye

#5. I would never give artificial birth control to an unmarried person ...

Judie Brown

#6. I would never again assume that any figure of authority automatically held any intellectual distinction. I am unafraid.

Morrissey

#7. I would never want to disrespect my beliefs. There are certain, obviously different, areas you wouldn't go. It's not congruent to who I am as a person, and it would be insincere, and it wouldn't be based on truth.

Riaad Moosa

#8. Which is when I decided I would never love anyone again because you just felt like an idiot when you put love out there and it didn't come back your way.

Karen Tayleur

#9. I could almost feel Meghan against me, shaking with sobs as she mourned her Winter prince. I could feel my arms around her as I whispered that it would be okay, that she still had me, and I would never leave. Ant then I wanted to kick myself in the head for thinking that

Julie Kagawa

#10. Antsy, adj.
I swore I would never take you to the opera again.

David Levithan

#11. 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

#12. Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

Lauren Bush

#13. I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Peter Eisenman

#14. What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.

Paul LePage

#15. Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Margaret Cho

#16. I feel like I have always played within the rules. I would never break the rules.

Tom Brady

#17. I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.

Trey Parker

#18. Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to the sunsets, I would never catch up with him now.

Kenneth Oppel

#19. I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.

Joan Smalls

#21. I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.

Marguerite Young

#22. I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

Curt Weldon

#23. I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional ... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

Dana Goodyear

#24. Let's say there was a fat guy heckling me. I would rip him to shreds, but I would never go for the obvious, never talk about how he's fat or anything.

Judah Friedlander

#25. I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

Alexander McCall Smith

#26. I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.

Terry Crews

#27. Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things ... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.

Johnny Weir

#28. Somewhere along the line, I'll screw up and hurt you," he said. "Everybody does. But that's not the point."
"What's the point?"
"The point is if you believe I would never do it on purpose - and if I believe the same of you. That's how you deal with stuff.

Erica Bauermeister

#29. I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

Micky Ward

#30. It was a summer I would never, ever forget. It was the summer everything began. It was the summer I turned pretty. Because for the first time, I felt it. Pretty, I mean. Every summer up to this one, I believed it'd be different. Life would be different. And that summer, it finally was.

Jenny Han

#31. Initially I thought: 'I would never get cast opposite Will Smith! No one would ever buy it with the age difference, our personalities.' I can't think of a couple that makes less sense in every way, shape and form.

Margot Robbie

#32. I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

Russell Simmons

#33. On the inside I would still be little Lark, brittle bones and sharp feelings, certain that I would never be able to fulfill the duties before me.

Amy Harmon

#34. I would never say snog. I would say osculate. She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

Joe Dunthorne

#35. Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

Tim Burton

#36. I told you I would never let anything bad happen to you.

Cora Carmack

#37. To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.

T. J. Miller

#38. What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour ... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.

Claire Denis

#39. I would never have named them in the
first place as they are not the ones I hold responsible. It's the organization that's to blame, the high officials are the ones to blame.

Franz Kafka

#40. I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#41. I'm a self motivated person, that's what got me to the point I'm at today. I don't take anybody lightly because this is what I do, this is my job. The day that I stop taking it seriously is the day I have to stop boxing. I would never put myself into a position where I go into the ring not prepared.

Danny Garcia

#42. Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.

Dorothea Dix

#43. I would not be weak again. I would not be dependent on anyone else. I would never have to endure the touch of the Attor as it dragged me because I was too helpless to know where and how to hit. Never again. But

Sarah J. Maas

#44. When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in a way I would never understand music.

Garth Greenwell

#45. I don't like kitten heels. I just don't think they are an attractive shoe because they always look so stumpy. And I would never wear cowboy boots: a pointy toe and little heel is just not my thing.

Jessica Hart

#46. If I build your hopes I would never shatter your dreams for always we will be a team!!

Marcia Shury

#47. I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

Billy Preston

#48. I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people who wanted to destroy them then I had to take that chance even if it meant I would never see them again.

Andrew Klavan

#49. Let's get one thing clear between us, Shiloh. I would never laugh at you. I might tease the dickens out of you, but I would never, ever make fun of you. That's not who I am. I don't believe in humiliating another person. It's not in my DNA.

Lindsay McKenna

#50. I would never interrupt you," he told her. "I love it when you talk Sweetly to me.

Courtney Milan

#51. One of these days Princess, I promise you."
I turned to scowl at him once more, "I would never be desperate enough to want you." Okay that was a lie; my breaths were already quickening just feeling his sculpted body pressed against mine.
His smile was slow and sexy, "We'll see.

Molly McAdams

#52. When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Loudon Wainwright III

#53. Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press.

Ridley Scott

#54. I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.

Jason Patric

#55. I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.'For the big job,' you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I'd never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.

Kate Chisman

#56. I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

Lita Ford

#57. I would never do anything just for spite.

Justin Timberlake

#58. I would never kiss anyone/ Who doesn't burn me like the sun,

Jens Lekman

#59. I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member.

Groucho Marx

#60. Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Richard E. Grant

#61. I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.

Pauley Perrette

#62. I think for me I've always loved being in the water and I love training and I love being at the pool so you know it's not a chore for me to go training, but come race day I would never just train to train - I train to race.

Stephanie Rice

#63. I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

Nancy Pelosi

#64. In a black and white world, Chase and I would never end up together - our mothers had ensured that - but in that small bathroom, under the harsh fluorescent lights, we dragged each other deeper into the gray - the messy, guilt-ridden space that sat between right and wrong.

R.S. Grey

#65. Taking on the media is something I would never tell a candidate to do. I'd advise him what I would do in that circumstance, but that's about it.

Roger Ailes

#66. I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

Don DeLillo

#67. I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

Dean Smith

#68. I knew I would never travel through space or fly a plane, but sitting there with the girl I loved - there was no question about me loving her

Julie Murphy

#69. I made a vow to myself, then, that no one would ever control my emotions. I would save love for the children I expected to have and for my animals. I would never allow myself to be made weak by it, never allow anyone to come that close. It was a decision that would cloud my life for many years.

Toni Maguire

#70. It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

Hunter S. Thompson

#71. They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would never walk. I walked. They said I would never dance, but I never danced anyway.

Benedict Groeschel

#72. I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.

Anthony Bourdain

#73. If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

Jenny Han

#74. I would never do hard-core pornography, because it looks too much like open-heart surgery.

John Waters

#75. I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

Ron White

#76. When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.

Diego Luna

#77. I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

Bill James

#78. If I knew what I was thinking [ ... ] I would never have become a writer.

Amelie Nothomb

#79. I would never have discovered alcohol.

David Strickland

#80. I hate that I can't take back what I said. I would never hit Dylan. I would never hurt her. But just beat her up with words.

Katie Kacvinsky

#81. I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

Michael Sims

#82. My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.

Mithun Chakraborty

#83. I would never filibuster any President's judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.

Saxby Chambliss

#84. I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"
as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.

Jack Henry Abbott

#85. I promised myself I would never be one of those people who complained about "Oh man, lots of people are interested in our movie and now I gotta talk about it."

Damon Lindelof

#86. That first night, I did realize I would never meet another girl like you. But you deserve someone who has waited for you as long as you have waited for them. And no matter how much I wish I could be that guy, I can't Harper.

Molly McAdams

#87. To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

Warwick Davis

#88. I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

Amber Heard

#89. When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Lou Holtz

#90. We feel encouraged to go further with our instincts, not to change ourselves for love. If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires.

Lauren Kate

#91. And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

Augusten Burroughs

#92. I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

Mary Roach

#93. I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

Maya Angelou

#94. I may be an idiot," he said gravely, "but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown.

Anthony Marra

#95. I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

Roger Zelazny

#96. I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

Don DeLillo

#97. If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.

Richard F. Syron

#98. I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#99. I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Woodrow Wilson

#100. I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

Phoebe Stone