Top 100 My Never Quotes
#1. As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.
Jeanette Winterson
#2. How Sweet the name of Jesus ... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.
John Newton
#3. Your nerve endings
I know their plot
To attack
My never endings
Until we fall asleep
In each other's arms
Iain S. Thomas
#4. I have always been the reader, never the writer. Now that I have tasted writing I don't think I can get enough of it. This thirst for writing my never be quenched.
Shaunna Peterson
#5. I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.
James Nares
#6. He's my never - the person who I should have ended up with, the one who shakes your soul, but timing was never right.
Renee Swann
#7. I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish.' Homer, The Odyssey
Andy Miller
#8. My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Robert Southey
#9. AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for sharing your lives with me.....
Amelia Hutchins
#10. I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.
Julia Glass
#11. I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.
Thomas Jefferson
#12. I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
Edward Abbey
#13. When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
Dolly Parton
#14. You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic.
Junot Diaz
#15. I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.
Michel Ocelot
#16. Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Jonathan Edwards
#17. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.
Garth Brooks
#18. I would never shop from the Internet or a catalogue; otherwise, how am I going to educate my eye? I just love going out and searching for new things.
Kelly Wearstler
#19. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
Barry Lyga
#20. Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal again, my only friend is my misery. Wantin revenge for the agony they did to me.
Tupac Shakur
#21. I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet during the interview, they said to bring me back when I was older.
Jason Fuchs
#22. I want to feel all my feelings, to have every feeling a person can have and never not feel it.
Sharon Stone
#23. I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.
Melissa Bank
#24. I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and
revenge
I think
has never looked so sweet.
Tahereh Mafi
#25. I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
Alan Furst
#26. I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.
Jerry Spinelli
#27. At this stage of my life, I had reached the conclusion that I would never be the protagonist of any story. The only thing I could hope for was to make an appearance in somebody else's.
Cesar Aira
#28. I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.
Meghan Daum
#29. I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.
Linda Evangelista
#30. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.
Jessica Sorensen
#32. The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.
Warren Buffett
#33. An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.
Howard Pyle
#34. I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.
Suzi Quatro
#35. I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off.
Scott Foley
#36. I never talked about you much. I said to Hardy. My voice sounded odd to my own ears.
Hardy stared into my eyes and nodded, understanding that some things mean too
much to be expressed easily.
Lisa Kleypas
#37. I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God ... I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world.
Elvis Presley
#38. I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.
Isabel Allende
#39. Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.
Seanan McGuire
#40. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby
Seanan McGuire
#41. I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#42. I never liked to work because I don't want no one to be a slave. I want to be worked in my mind. Every thing that's going on, there's some big spirit behind me who send me to do the thing that I must do.
Lee "Scratch" Perry
#43. I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!
Charles Hanson Towne
#44. My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
Allison Pearson
#45. On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.
Avril Lavigne
#46. When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.
Laura Bush
#47. I'm saying that in four years, I'm going to be free, and I've never been free in my entire life." Her smile grew. "And I want to know what that feels like.
Sarah J. Maas
#48. It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.
Alison Jackson
#49. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.
Bill Hicks
#50. So I'm gonna write it down to scream it out, and I'm never gonna be the same again. Fear is the color you've all exposed, now I gotta get up here and prove the importance of my clothes of my pose. I suppose, again.
Tegan Quin
#51. One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. It was a mistake to not tell you how I felt. It's haunted me since the day I came home and found you gone. You'll never know how sorry I am for letting you slip through my fingers. But it won't happen again because I'm never letting you go. Ever
Georgia Cates
#53. I never met Kurt Cobain, but I felt like I got to know him in a manner probably more intimate than anyone I've known outside of my family.
Brett Morgen
#54. Those that love you the most never allow you to change.
Melissa Dymock
#56. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.
Graham Greene
#57. Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." On
David McCullough
#58. We will not open healed wounds!"
"My wounds are not healed!" I stated just as firmly. "They will never be healed until justice is done!
V.C. Andrews
#59. My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.
Martin Clunes
#60. I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.
Ken Baumann
#61. My father never did any of the things that my friends' fathers did with them. We never tossed a football around or even watched games together. He would always say, "I don't have time - maybe later," but he always had time to sit around and get drunk.
Susan Forward
#62. I'm the type of person who wakes up at 12 AM just to write down a sudden idea that gets in my head. I have a never ending imagination.
B.A. Gabrielle
#63. Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#64. My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.
Algernon Blackwood
#65. I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.
Marcel Dzama
#66. You're toying with one of my people,"
she said coldly, watching impassively as he lifted her hand to his mouth.
"You never used to be cruel"
"I used to have a heart," he drawled "and then someone broke it.
Sylvia Day
#67. But right then, one room away, there were people in love, and I'd never felt so alone in my life.
Diana Peterfreund
#68. What I like about you is that I've never met anybody like you in my life. You've got depth and you're funny and you have a sweet, good soul." A breeze from the water passes over us, "And I admire your strength.
Augusten Burroughs
#69. Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.
John Darnielle
#70. Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.
Andy Serkis
#71. What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.
Barack Obama
#72. My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.
Jenny Offill
#73. I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
Tupac Shakur
#74. I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.
Gretchen Carlson
#75. I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
Emil Cioran
#76. I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.
Todd Barry
#77. With you, I want it all. If I get a taste of what it could be, I won't ever want to let it go. I fell in love with you when I was sixteen, and that's never changed. But trusting you with my heart again is different. With you, I need to know it's forever.
Abbi Glines
#78. Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
Michiel Huisman
#79. Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.
Gina Barreca
#80. I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
Donella Meadows
#81. Cadence, n.
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.
David Levithan
#82. Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!
W.C. Fields
#84. I just hate plugs. It just doesn't seem entertaining to me. I've never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand people use that vehicle. It's just not very entertaining.
Norm MacDonald
#85. I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.
Ayelet Waldman
#86. I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back.
Jeff Kinney
#87. I swore never to use the emoticon ever ... until one day, offhandedly and without much thought, I used my first and, shortly thereafter, in spite of my initial resistance, became a regular staple of my daily correspondence
Joshua Ferris
#88. My fans are all pretty cool, you know; I've never really seen anybody fighting on Twitter, no death threats, no harsh language, no gay slurs, nothing like that.
Drake Bell
#89. I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.
Carl Everett
#90. There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.
Geraldine McCaughrean
#91. My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.
Gabby Douglas
#92. But certainly in my grandmother's time - and when I was growing up, yeah, Demetrie's bathroom was on the side of the house, it was a separate door. Still, to this day, I've never been in that room.
Kathryn Stockett
#93. The Net
I made you many and many a song,
Yet never one told all you are
It was as though a net of words
Were flung to catch a star;
It was as though I curved my hand
And dipped sea-water eagerly,
Only to find it lost the blue
Dark splendor of the sea.
Sara Teasdale
#94. You're never too old for me to look out for you and to make sure that every guy knows that if he tries to screw you over, I will shoot him."
"Okay," I say, looking up at Asher. "If you screw me over, my dad will shoot you.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#95. Issa knelt down in front of her, taking her hands in his. Until the end of time, I will love you. You are the moon in my endless night. I have never abandoned this world, even when I desperately wanted to, and I will never leave you, either.
Lisa Kessler
#96. My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew I could never defeat it. My fear strangled my light.
Angela McPherson
#97. My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.
Blaise Aguera Y Arcas
#99. I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
#100. I dropped the blood-coated chair leg and collapsed to my knees. I couldn't swallow. I couldn't breathe. I was splattered with blood. I'd never beaten someone to death before. It had felt good.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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