Made Me Realize Quotes

#1. That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. I

Trevor Noah

#2. Having kids had a big effect on me, but nothing more than when they started to get older- that really made me realize how fleeting each moment is.

Frank Iero

#3. I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

Gary Oldman

#4. There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.

Thalia

#5. The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.

Enrico Caruso

#6. I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.

Sharon Creech

#7. Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

Stacy Peralta

#8. I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.

S. Truett Cathy

#9. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

Larry Brilliant

#10. For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

Albert Camus

#11. And that made me realize this: Everyone's story is different, all the time. No one is ever really together, even if it looks for a while like they

Ali Benjamin

#12. It was moments like this that made me realize that love was just a feeling in which we all felt the need to desire, but if it wasn't reciprocated was it still love then? When it's so toxic but you hold on still, was it an addiction

Zoya

#13. Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

Daniel Clowes

#14. As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Peter Cook

#15. It just made me realize that I wouldn't have anything if you left," he said miserably. Jake gave a pained wince and looked down at the floor. "I wouldn't have anything if I left, either," he murmured.

Madeleine Urban

#16. Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

Illinois Jacquet

#17. When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

Gene Weingarten

#18. This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source.

Sue Monk Kidd

#19. That look, that tenderness in her eyes, made me realize for the first time what was happening to me: I was falling in love.

Christina Lauren

#20. It was during that time he made me realize the scariest part about death, about being left behind - nothing else freezes after losing a loved one besides you.

Jennifer Snyder

#21. My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a whole lot of other people who suck at math as bad as I do. No. Fifty is fifty.

Celia Rivenbark

#22. Even though I knew she wasn't going to jump, seeing her standing on the ledge made me realize that I want and need her in my life forever. She challenges me, pushes me, and pisses me off, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Jessica Sorensen

#23. Suddenly it made me realize why religion was such a big thing around here. Because, yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So if they believed in themselves
the logic must go
why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

Matt Haig

#24. When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

Muhammad Ali

#25. At first I was afraid that I would be left defenseless, that I would babble aloud the things I've always been terrified of saying. Instead, opium made me realize that I could say anything I liked without losing my identity.

Jerzy Kosinski

#26. Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life

Seema Gupta

#27. Most people - and I'm guilty of it as well - think of passion as hot, fiery, impulsive. But listening to you made me realize that passion can be a deep, warm, steady flame too. The kind of fire that keeps a man warm at night - or melts an ice wall that would drown a flashier spark.

Rowan Speedwell

#28. I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.

Jon Scieszka

#29. Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

Ashley Rickards

#30. Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Rita Dove

#31. My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones.

Dan Harmon

#32. It changed the man I thought I was and made me realize that loving someone with your entire heart didn't ensure they would always be with you. There was no way to predict your fate.

C.A. Harms

#33. He made me realize that hard work
that the act of finishing, of completing, of accomplishing a task
is joyous

Sherman Alexie

#34. This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating

Matt Cohen

#35. Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

Ralph Bakshi

#36. I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.

Doug Jones

#37. It's made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it's a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed.

Hoda Kotb

#38. After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#39. You don't run,' he corrected me. 'But you're more than able.' There was no shadow of doubt in his voice. Hearing it from someone else made me realize: there was nothing stopping me from running but me.

Alexandra Heminsley

#40. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.

Jim Carrey

#41. I'd have devoured those books I've come to love - the ones that have helped me reawaken my sexuality. The books that have made me realize it's okay to want more out of my sex life, to want my husband to push the envelope with me. Experiment with me. Demand more of me.

C.D. Reiss

#42. That embrace had made me realize that it was absolutely possible to genuinely like someone that you were insanely jealous of.

Penelope Ward

#43. It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away.

Nicci French

#44. Having a kid made me realize, "I have to take care of this kid, but I can't have the luxury of dropping everything in the world and spending every waking moment with him. I've got to work."

A.C. Newman

#45. If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

Gary Sheffield

#46. I thought I knew not only her habits but also her limits. This display of ferocity, of savage courage, made me realize that I was wrong. All my life I had known only a part of her.

Yann Martel

#47. Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Diane Johnson

#48. When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.

Rick Riordan

#49. In an odd way it was comforting to know that people you imagine are oversexed, misogynistic pigs are, in fact, oversexed, misogynistic pigs. It made me realize that sometimes people are exactly who you expect them to be.

Olivia Munn

#50. High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

John Green

#51. Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.

Jo Webber

#52. Climbing has taught me many lessons, one of the most important being, just how ever-present death is. Having faced death a few times now while climbing, has made me realize that I have no fear of it.

Mekael Shane

#53. The simple facts of Chadian life - what it takes to survive in that kind of climate with nothing but a hut and some animals - stunned me. And this made me realize, perhaps for the first time, how easy my life was compared to those of people in less privileged societies.

Alex Honnold

#54. I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

Maddie Hasson

#55. The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

Cher

#56. And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who ... how successful you are.

Dabney Coleman

#57. An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!

Hillary Carlip

#58. My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

Tammy Duckworth

#59. Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

Dar Williams

#60. If I knew this is your final goodbye; I'd have told you that still I've a lot of things to say. I'd have told you how you changed my life, how you made me close to Me, how you made me realize the beauty of the world.
If only I knew, this is your final goodbye ... I'd have never let you say it ...

Crestless Wave

#61. Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#62. The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

Nick Antosca

#63. My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.

Kevin J. Anderson

#64. In some ways, we've been through something no one else can ever understand but the two of us ... And it made me realize. We are always and absolutely better together.

Cassandra Clare

#65. The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.

Simon Critchley

#66. Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.

Matisyahu

#67. I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.

Jenny Slate

#68. In 2003, he was hit by a subway in Prague and lost both of his legs. It made me realize that we take for granted every step we take, and my brother now has to physically challenge himself to take each step in his prosthetic.

Bianca Kajlich

#69. We know it, but chose forget it. Is too much hard to bear. Yesterday, you made me realize that: we chose forget.

Rachel Ward

#70. The press has made up so much ... God ... awful, horrifying stories ... it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.

Michael Jackson

#71. It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him.

Tony Orlando

#72. I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.

Tananarive Due

#73. I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.

Edie Falco

#74. I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.

Curtis Stone

#75. I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story.

Tim Story

#76. I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Steve Buscemi

#77. Just like Jacob, Larkin made me realize that no matter how much you think you know a person-no matter how pretty they are, how together they act, or how popular they seem, you can never know what their lives are really like.
Not until you ask them.
And not unless you're listening.

Jess Rothenberg

#78. She has changed me in a way that I cannot explain. She has made me realize that sometimes things happen for a reason and not to push you back in life, but to move you forward to where you're truly meant to be.

Erika Taylor

#79. You came into my life. You changed my world. You made me realize I'm capable of loving completely. You're my one. You're it. This is my epic love, and I can't lose that.

Abbi Glines

#80. What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back.

Lee Tergesen

#81. My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression she fell into after my father's death. Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Suzanne Collins

#82. There was no right or wrong during war. The setting sun made me realize that the ones who would live to see a new day would be the ones who are victorious. As with all the history of this world, the ones who won were always right.

Shayne Colaco

#83. He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red blood, separated through some fortune and shame in the way of humanity.

Anthony Liccione

#84. Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.

Aron Ralston

#85. When I was a little girl... a movie made me realize what I wanted to be in life.

Sonja De Lange

#86. That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

J.X. Burros

#87. I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

Jennie Finch

#88. When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great

Tina J. Richardson

#89. I was beginning to realize that all the food in the world, and all the running shoes, could not make me happy. The material things were worthless. I had lost my family. I wasn't loved, I wasn't free, and I wasn't safe. I was alive, but everything that made life worth living was gone.

Yeonmi Park

#90. shook my head. "This is too easy." "Don't worry. Something will go wrong soon." He continued down the corridor, and I followed. It took me three steps to realize Edward had made a joke. The

Laurell K. Hamilton

#91. I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.

Norma McCorvey

#92. We are the worst of ourselves and also the best. They can try and shock it out of us but it doesn't really go away, not entirely. And that's pl. It made me feel great to realize that. It made me feel almost whole again

Sara Shepard

#93. He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#94. I didn't realize it at the time. I really didn't even think about it, until you. I couldn't figure out why you were so different to me.I know now that it's not right ... But it was something. It made me feel less ... lonely.

S.C. Stephens

#95. Their nasty whispering made me angry. They had a neat way of tucking their point inside something softseeming and neighborly. The cutting edge was hidden in a joke or a piece of advice. It was like being sliced by a tiny blade hidden in a goose feather; it took a moment to realize the wound.

Ananda Braxton-Smith

#96. Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try."
It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#97. On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation.

Dan J. Marlowe

#98. All of the struggles and difficult times have taught me lessons and made me who I now am. I realize that my emotions are a choice. I get to choose how I react to any given situation. If I find myself sad or angry, it is my choice how long I stay there or if I want to start to feel better.

K.L. Clarke

#99. Into The Woods was ... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.

Bernadette Peters

#100. Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.

Nicholas Sparks