Top 100 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

Never Got Quotes #1214755
#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

Never Got Quotes #1441585
#3. The saddest thing about myself is that I never read a book. I never got the habit.

Anthony Newley

Never Got Quotes #1441050
#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

Never Got Quotes #1440476
#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

Never Got Quotes #1436310
#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

Never Got Quotes #1432932
#7. Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

Brendan Behan

Never Got Quotes #1423769
#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

Never Got Quotes #1415175
#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

Never Got Quotes #1410401
#10. In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.

Terry Pratchett

Never Got Quotes #1400075
#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

Never Got Quotes #1397918
#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

Never Got Quotes #1395852
#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

Never Got Quotes #1394035
#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

Never Got Quotes #1393514
#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

Never Got Quotes #1392256
#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

Never Got Quotes #1391081
#17. I was planning on procrastinating today ... but never got around to it.

Quentin R. Bufogle

Never Got Quotes #1384264
#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

Never Got Quotes #1379507
#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

Never Got Quotes #1376925
#20. I was always the ugly duckling; I never got attention from girls.

Kid Cudi

Never Got Quotes #1368273
#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

Never Got Quotes #1357032
#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

Never Got Quotes #1349936
#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

Never Got Quotes #1347354
#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

Never Got Quotes #1342394
#25. It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.

Marion Motley

Never Got Quotes #1340989
#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.

Never Got Quotes #1340161
#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

Never Got Quotes #1338915
#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

Never Got Quotes #1337345
#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

Never Got Quotes #1336239
#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

Never Got Quotes #1332193
#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

Never Got Quotes #1331056
#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

Never Got Quotes #1319624
#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

Never Got Quotes #1318810
#34. Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically.

Lorrie Moore

Never Got Quotes #1316390
#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

Never Got Quotes #1316106
#36. I never got nervous performing my own material.

Wiz Khalifa

Never Got Quotes #1312449
#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

Never Got Quotes #1312303
#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

Never Got Quotes #1311361
#39. Alex Hailey, who traced his roots all the way to the back of the bus. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Never Got Quotes #1295738
#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

Never Got Quotes #1295679
#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

Never Got Quotes #1295307
#42. I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

David Friedman

Never Got Quotes #1292643
#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

Never Got Quotes #1291832
#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

Never Got Quotes #1289072
#45. Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

Jennifer Weiner

Never Got Quotes #1288960
#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

Never Got Quotes #1283589
#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

Never Got Quotes #1282068
#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

Never Got Quotes #1280957
#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

Never Got Quotes #1278012
#50. Amelia Earhart, who said, Stop looking for me; see if you can find my luggage! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Never Got Quotes #1271815
#51. Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

Terry Pratchett

Never Got Quotes #1268582
#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

Never Got Quotes #1264888
#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

Never Got Quotes #1257930
#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

Never Got Quotes #1252978
#55. The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized.

Agatha Christie

Never Got Quotes #1248174
#56. Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

Tupac Shakur

Never Got Quotes #1243835
#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

Never Got Quotes #1239420
#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

Never Got Quotes #1239301
#59. Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Never Got Quotes #1238981
#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

Never Got Quotes #1238502
#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

Never Got Quotes #1236911
#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

Never Got Quotes #1236649
#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

Never Got Quotes #1235616
#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

Never Got Quotes #1224027
#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

Never Got Quotes #1223726
#66. I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.

Misty Copeland

Never Got Quotes #1221424
#67. It was a puzzle for men how women never got tired of shopping, even if there was nothing to buy

Kenneth Eade

Never Got Quotes #1215778
#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

Never Got Quotes #1214972
#69. From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Chuck Close

Never Got Quotes #1214876
#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

Never Got Quotes #998587
#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

Never Got Quotes #1033611
#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

Never Got Quotes #1033114
#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

Never Got Quotes #1030645
#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

Never Got Quotes #1026935
#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

Never Got Quotes #1025976
#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

Never Got Quotes #1021912
#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

Never Got Quotes #1016612
#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

Never Got Quotes #1013857
#79. Joseph Cotten, who said, You know how I got my name? Sammy Davis picked it for me. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Never Got Quotes #1013741
#80. Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Stephen Ambrose

Never Got Quotes #1009647
#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

Never Got Quotes #1008901
#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

Never Got Quotes #1007795
#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

Never Got Quotes #1006224
#84. I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Rob Lowe

Never Got Quotes #1006199
#85. He was an anarchist, though he never got into any trouble about it, except with his wife.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never Got Quotes #1005807
#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

Never Got Quotes #1001341
#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

Never Got Quotes #999298
#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

Never Got Quotes #965775
#89. Henry Ford, who despite his immense wealth never owned a Cadillac. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

Never Got Quotes #929730
#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

Never Got Quotes #945024
#91. Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

Robert Breault

Never Got Quotes #945631
#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

Never Got Quotes #946455
#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

Never Got Quotes #954580
#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

Never Got Quotes #957410
#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

Never Got Quotes #958143
#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

Never Got Quotes #961285
#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

Never Got Quotes #981161
#98. cause sitting around moping over a nigga ain't never got a bitch nowhere.

N. Carmouche

Never Got Quotes #979505
#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

Never Got Quotes #978844
#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

Never Got Quotes #997508

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