Never Got Quotes

#1. One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.

Maria Semple

#2. I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.

Jamie Dornan

#3. The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

Anthony Newley

#4. Buenos dias, she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye.

Wallace Stegner

#5. [The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

Mose Allison

#6. I never got a stereo system until about 1969. It was only when I went to America in '68 and listened to FM radio; I really thought, 'Wow, there's something in this.'

Justin Hayward

#7. Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

Brendan Behan

#8. I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

China Mieville

#9. Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.

Terry Pratchett

#11. She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

Sarah Dunn

#12. I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love ... You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark. I'd thought nothing would ever replace cricket. Wow! Fenway Park at 7 o'clock in the evening. Oh, just, magic beyond magic: never got over that

Simon Schama

#13. They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.

Salena Godden

#14. I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Salma Hayek

#15. Things never got tidied up the minute a couple got divorced. It seemed, from what I'd seen, that the divorce itself was the easiest part and all the real shit is what came afterward, shit that went on for years.

Karina Halle

#16. I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

Gail Devers

#17. I was planning on procrastinating today ... but never got around to it.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#18. I never got into fights with kids about whose dad is bigger and who can beat up who. What am I going to say? My dad can kill your dad when he's asleep?

Mary Brunner

#19. I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

John Carpenter

#20. I was always the ugly duckling; I never got attention from girls.

Kid Cudi

#21. We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

Cab Calloway

#22. My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.

George Brett

#23. I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

Fay Wray

#24. Someone once said to me that I've always been his, and that even if he never got to keep me, I'd still be his. Well I'm yours, Ryan, and even if you have to leave me, I'll always be yours.

Kate McCarthy

#25. It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

Marion Motley

#26. RVM's Thought for the Day - A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them.

R.v.m.

#27. Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#28. 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

S.E. Hinton

#29. I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.

Zoe Kravitz

#30. I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.

Ester Dean

#31. The Invisible Man, who said to his wife, I don't care if it looks silly, don't stop! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#32. I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

Neil Sheehan

#33. Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I'm just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.

Monte Irvin

#34. Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically.

Lorrie Moore

#35. No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

Bart Stupak

#36. I never got nervous performing my own material.

Wiz Khalifa

#37. I'm sorry you never got to live the life you wanted. Or see the world. Have an adventure." He chuckled low in his throat. "Oh, no? I'd say we were having quite the adventure, you and I. They always said to be careful what you wish for, but I wouldn't listen.

Julie Klassen

#38. I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

Ruben Blades

#39. Alex Hailey, who traced his roots all the way to the back of the bus. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#40. A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Criss Jami

#41. I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.

Trey Gowdy

#42. I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

David Friedman

#43. I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they said, 'They're just jealous because you're beautiful and talented.' It was probably one of the worst things they could have told me, because I became self-conscious.

Teri Polo

#44. My mother sent me lithograph years ago at the height of my television success. It said, 'When your cup runneth over, watcheth out.' I never got over it. There's something so cosmic to be inferred in that. Not necessarily anything bad, and not necessarily anything good.

Peter Scolari

#45. Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Jennifer Weiner

#46. The success-haters. That's what I call them
the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

Zoe Akins

#47. We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.

Rick Wright

#48. I can't believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking? That I would somehow live off inorganic chemistry?

Neel Burton

#49. I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

Rupert Graves

#50. Amelia Earhart, who said, Stop looking for me; see if you can find my luggage! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#51. Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Terry Pratchett

#52. However, to the amazement of their neighbors, the Klutzes never got seriously hurt. As clumsy as they were, the Klutzes were twice that lucky!

Henrik Drescher

#53. My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff.

Michael Schur

#54. They never got you, don't you know that? You irritating, charming, stubborn, evolved, intolerable, sweet, complex, caring, melodramatic bastard with your heart of gold. They never got you. You're wholly you, and you're perfect.

Dianna Hardy

#55. The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

Agatha Christie

#56. Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

Tupac Shakur

#57. For example, the main reason zebras never got domesticated is that they're ultra-high-fear. Zebras may bite people and not let go. They injure more people in zoos than the tigers do.15

Temple Grandin

#58. Ben Hur, who said to his sister Ben Him, We'd better swap names before they start calling me Ben Gay! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#59. Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#60. Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask.
"What does it feel like?

Alexandra Bracken

#61. George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#62. I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

Peter Fonda

#63. I never got a chance to take advantage of 'Superbad' at school because I graduated before it came out, so I never got to use any of my fame to pick up girls and go to cool parties.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#64. My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.

Bennett Miller

#65. In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

Christo

#66. I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.

Misty Copeland

#67. It was a puzzle for men how women never got tired of shopping, even if there was nothing to buy

Kenneth Eade

#68. I never got to meet Michael Jackson, and he's gone - so to be on stage with Prince was like if Michael ... you know what I'm saying? And Prince, he's just such a warmhearted guy. He's so humble. He's such a spiritual man. I like his style.

Sharon Jones

#69. From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Chuck Close

#70. But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.

Michael Morpurgo

#71. Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#72. Eddie got in. Roland paused for a moment to tap his throat three times. Eddie had seen him perform this ritual before when about to cross open water, and reminded himself to ask about it. He never got the chance; before the question occurred to him again, death had slipped between them.

Stephen King

#73. A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.

Roger Daltrey

#74. Mrs General had no opinions. Her way of forming a mind was to prevent it from forming opinions. She had a little circular set of mental grooves or rails on which she started little trains of other people's opinions, which never overtook one another, and never got anywhere.

Charles Dickens

#75. I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Brian Eno

#76. While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I've become an actress today, I still have those traits.

Esha Gupta

#77. You weren't just an incredible idea that God never got around to making. The next step happened for the world when God dropped you on the planet.

Bob Goff

#78. If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it
for fun and for free.

Susan E. Isaacs

#79. Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#80. Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Stephen Ambrose

#81. Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#82. My Parents were murdered in Texas in 2010 and he never got caught-My G-d Hates me and the police did not care. Truth

Brenda Kay Winters

#83. How much do you know about the Heartland War?'
Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

Neal Shusterman

#84. I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Rob Lowe

#85. He was an anarchist, though he never got into any trouble about it, except with his wife.

Kurt Vonnegut

#86. I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

Peggy Guggenheim

#87. I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

Venus Williams

#88. I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.

Peter Jackson

#89. Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#90. It's as if you had a story together and it was never finished. You never got to know the ending because a whole fucking chunk of the pages have been torn out of the back of the book. And it's so unfair." The

Jay Northcote

#91. Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

Robert Breault

#92. McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.

Adam McKay

#93. Actually in Hobbiton and Bywater every day in the year was somebody's birthday, so that every hobbit in those parts had a fair chance of at least one present at least once a week. But they never got tired of them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#94. I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

Julia Roberts

#95. Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

Deion Sanders

#96. Could he truly pretend that he wanted to be her friend? A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time, and had never got anywhere.

Joe Abercrombie

#97. Right away he'd cuss me out, tell me I was a worthless piece of shit. But I never got pissed at David. In my mind, I thought, I'm better than that and I'll show you. As it happens,

Chris Kyle

#98. cause sitting around moping over a nigga ain't never got a bitch nowhere.

N. Carmouche

#99. After six hours in the car, he felt no panic, only a kind of numb wonder. On some level he had come to view his situation as almost natural. Sooner or later a black car came for everyone. It came and took you away from your loved ones, and you never got to go back.

Joe Hill

#100. When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven - I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.

Carolina Herrera