Top 100 Never Been Quotes
#1. I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.
Christine Quinn
#2. I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
Lawrence Welk
#3. I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
Bernie Mac
#4. My motrher says friendship should be slowly and carefully cultivated, like a rose garden, like a romance in a story. That every reason you care about someone should be rational.
She says I care too quickly.
But friendship has never been somenting I could do halfway
Betsy Cornwell
#5. He had never been able to understand the assumption of intimacy fans felt with those they had never met.
Robert Galbraith
#6. So many places I've never been to ... I have a whole world to experience before it's too late, and I'm keeping a journal of it all as I go, so I'll be able to enjoy the world all over again when I get back.
Terry Pratchett
#7. THE SPECIALISTS MODEL SPY:
"Sorry," David mumbles right before crushing his mouth to mine.
Oh my God, I'm sixteen, and I've never been kissed. Please let me be doing this right.
Except ... this is it? This is about as exciting as kissing my laptop.
Shannon Greenland
#8. I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.
Andre Balazs
#9. When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.
George Carlin
#10. I haven't endorsed John McCain. And I've never been there with John McCain because I've always felt that he should've done a much better job for the vets. He has not done a good job for the vets and I've always felt that he should've done a much better job for the vets.
Donald Trump
#11. Sleep has never been a priority in my life.
Ryan Kwanten
#12. I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.
Alessandro Nivola
#13. Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.
J. Gresham Machen
#14. I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life.
Sienna Miller
#15. My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
Robert Harris
#16. Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.
Adam Rodriguez
#17. I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.
Ice-T
#18. I wanted to tell him I loved him, that I'd always loved him, & that life-& I- had never been the same without him there.
Beth Harbison
#19. There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
Bill Bradley
#21. I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
Nadine Gordimer
#22. I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.
Anna Kendrick
#24. Being on her own had never been a burden. Instead of weighing her down, it buoyed her up; when she was alone, she was lighter. When she was by herself, she felt untethered and free.
Jennifer E. Smith
#26. It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
Ice Cube
#27. The world was changing so fast it was hard to keep up. Grigori had never been inside
Ken Follett
#28. Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.
Lewis Gordon
#29. I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
#30. I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
Samuel Barnett
#31. It has never been hard to tell the difference between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
P.G. Wodehouse
#32. Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I have never been a bimbo.
Honor Blackman
#33. I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
Viggo Mortensen
#34. Our position has never been that people should be forced out of Scouting. We have always said that the values of Scouting are universal they should be welcome to everyone who is willing to live by the Scout oath and the Scout law.
Gwen Ifill
#35. It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive.
Stephenie Meyer
#36. And I know there has never been a human being or a television show, no matter how great, that could measure up to a great book. But
Sherman Alexie
#37. Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn't true.
Sara Sheridan
#38. I have never been a killer. I'm not an aggressive personality and if I can remember any emotion I felt during a race it was fear. The greatest stimulator of my running was fear.
Herb Elliott
#39. It's not every day you do something that's never been done before.
Sean Elliott
#40. There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
Mary Balogh
#41. I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.
Ali Hewson
#42. I've never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That's what's important to me.
Dominic Sherwood
#43. My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.
Meredith Brooks
#44. I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
Jello Biafra
#45. I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.
Bryan Adams
#46. I have never been a star; I'm just an old character bag.
Joan Hickson
#47. 'To worship or not to worship' has never been the question for all of God's created beings are inherently worshipers ... it is more consistently a question of who we will worship.
Judson Cornwall
#48. How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
Chuck Palahniuk
#49. While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
#50. Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.
Barbara Katz Rothman
#53. He has never won a game of Galactic Expansion against the repurposed interrogator droid. But he's close now. It's never been this close.
Chuck Wendig
#54. I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.
Blake Lively
#55. They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
Gregory Maguire
#56. Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.
Jeanette Winterson
#57. I'm not particularly good at 'celebrity'; I don't think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I've never been one for the red carpet and don't put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.
Sean Maguire
#58. Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.
Jessica Zafra
#59. I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.
Helmut Lang
#60. One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.
George R R Martin
#61. He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor
Gavin Weightman
#62. I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.
Marie Helvin
#63. No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.
S. Alice Callahan
#64. It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#65. The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured ... but the price of failure has never been this high.
Charles Lee Lesher
#66. Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
Kazimir Malevich
#67. It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing.
Allison Tolman
#68. Yes, this planet is in a terrible mess. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any "Good Old Days," there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, "Don't look at me. I just got here.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
Eddie Redmayne
#70. It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.
Richard Bach
#71. Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.
Christopher Titus
#72. I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.
George Brandis
#73. I had never been the receptacle of someone's hope, and found this weightless thing to be a heavy burden.
Katherine Marsh
#74. I'm blessed, and people's responses to me have never been negative.
Haywood Nelson
#75. He loses himself in his own thoughts. Floats away, as if in a mist. He's never been the sort of man who does that, has never been a daydreamer, but lately it's as if something's twisted up in his head. He's having increasing difficulty concentrating on things. He doesn't like it at all.
Fredrik Backman
#76. I can't say that I ever worried much about what people thought or said of me. I like to be liked, and have often wished that I could be as much loved as Jim Driscoll, say, but I have never been able to bow down to rules and regulations
Freddie Welsh
#77. And this is what your son said,' the angel told the man. 'These are the words he said to the rabbi at that point, and they have never been forgotten: "My Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof. But only speak a word and my servant will be healed.
Paulo Coelho
#78. If you are going to abandon your work because someone speaks ill of it, then it has never been your work, has it? It becomes theirs. You give it up.
Robin Oliveira
#79. To forget would mean the things we never knew
had never waited to be known, never waited
to be forgotten, had never been; waiting
beneath the long dead stars
in time. . .
John Daniel Thieme
#80. Dreams have never been this hot! Pleasures of the Night sizzles as a romance, enthralls as a paranormal, and captivates with a fantastic cast of characters. I didn't want the 'night' to end!
Susan Grant
#81. We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.
David Blunkett
#82. I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved.
Linda Ronstadt
#83. What are you? Insane? I'm not interested in Ms. Preppy Uptight Sloan Ranger. Jeez. I'd get khaki between my teeth. Can you imagine? I've never been in khaki and I never want to see a woman out it. It scares me. (Dev)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.
Tom Bodett
#85. Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?
Agatha Christie
#86. I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.
Jesse Ventura
#87. I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
Mia Wasikowska
#88. When someone is your husband or father, that's simply who they are. You don't stop to question much about them, unless you're given reason to, and they'd never been given reason to.
Zoe Whittall
#89. I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.
Gerald Clarke
#90. He'd never been the materialistic type, anyway. As evidenced by the fact that, currently, he slept in a tent and drove a mustang. The real kind of mustang, lower case, and not the upper-case car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.
Elizabeth Bevarly
#91. You're sleeping in my bed."
"Which is more unsanitary than the couch, I'm sure."
"There's never been anyone in my bed but me.
Jamie McGuire
#92. My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#93. To touch him in ways he'd never been touched before, this person who, beyond all logic, was the other half of her. Who belonged to her. Who was her soulmate.
L.J.Smith
#94. Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.
Max Lucado
#95. I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
Steve Wozniak
#96. He'd never been a kidnapping or hostage victim before, so he was a little fuzzy on the etiquette.
Santino Hassell
#97. If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.
Cameron Dokey
#98. Our blood and their orders. We prepare this land for Colors that have never shed sweat for us, Colors that sit in comfort on their thrones on distant Earth, Colors that have never been to Mars. Is that something to live for?
Pierce Brown
#99. Whoa, whoa!" he says as he sits up in bed. "You're beautiful. There is no ugly now. And I'm sure there was no ugly then. It was only how you felt when you were sick. I can understand that. But I can also assure you that you have never been ugly. There is only beauty here.
Lisa Mondello
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