Top 100 Never Knew Quotes
#1. That was what kept the world interesting ... reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
Scott Westerfeld
#2. When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
Facundo Pieres
#3. I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
Scott Adams
#4. Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.
Kate Chopin
#5. I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
Thomas A. Edison
#6. I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really.
Spike Jonze
#7. Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.
Sarah Dessen
#8. For my father
John Standish Fforde
1920-2000
Who never knew I was to be published but would have been most proud nonetheless
and not a little surprised.
Jasper Fforde
#9. A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
Richard M. Nixon
#10. Elmer Gantry never knew who set him thirty dimes, wrapped in a tract about holiness, nor why. But he found the sentiments in the tract useful in his sermon, and the thirty dimes he spent for lovely photographs of burlesque ladies.
Sinclair Lewis
#11. As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word beautiful.
Norman Maclean
#12. There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.
John Saxon
#13. I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.
John Adams
#14. Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?
Daniel Keyes
#15. Darlin', I've heard all about fifty shades of grey but I never knew there were fifty shades of denim!
Joanne McClean
#16. My victims never knew what was going to happen to them. I've had shooting, knifings, strangulations, beatings, and I've participated in actual crucifixions of humans. All across the country, there's people just like me, who set out to destroy life.
Henry Lee Lucas
#17. I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.
Robert Frost
#18. Hate is strewn like confetti by the fear-fueled, specious, tiny- dicked (or un-tender) vacuous dictators, of any gender, whom never knew true love, only sadism. They ALL need some good pharma.
Elizabeth Lucye Robillard
#19. I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
Graham Greene
#20. I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
Natalie Wood
#21. I always thought that explained it: the romance is a reaction from the algebra. I never knew a person connected with mathematics or astronomy or statistics, or any of those exact things, who didn't have a crazy streak in 'em SOMEwhere.
Booth Tarkington
#22. I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
Marguerite De Navarre
#23. He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was ...
Louis L'Amour
#24. But I understood why people would want to believe in those sorts of things - they made the world feel less lonely. And you never knew what a person could do fueled by hope.
Lori M. Lee
#25. I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you
Karuho Shiina
#26. She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates - you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And
Evangeline Anderson
#27. My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#28. I pray he found the peace in death that he never knew in life.
George R R Martin
#29. I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.
Kip Moore
#30. Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But not only of loss and mourning. It's also a memory of bravery and self-sacrifice, and the love that lays down its life for a friend-even a friend whose name it never knew.
George W. Bush
#31. I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.
Dominique Moceanu
#32. I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.
Meat Loaf
#33. I never knew about a lot of the outside things
Angelo Dundee
#34. I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.
Hilary Duff
#35. My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
Rose Kennedy
#36. Many have forgotten what we came here for,
Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor.
Just growin' not known' about your past ...
Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.
Chuck D
#37. When I first moved to New York, I moved all over because I never knew where I would be or if I was going to Europe, so I would sublet apartments. It was miserable because I was constantly moving.
Ashley Hinshaw
#38. I never knew how easy it is to escape if you don't mind leaving nearly everything behind.
Beth Revis
#39. Why come back to this empty house, and this Manila with a strange face; the one I never knew? All those lonely islands. They will keep afloat without me.
V.J. Campilan
#40. My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it.
"Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?"
"Lydia," he said. "I apologize.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#41. Sometimes she wished she were a little kid again. Everything was so simple then. Now she never knew when she was going to find out something terrible, something she didn't want to know. Sometimes her jaw ached in the morning. She wondered if Princess Elizabeth's jaw ever ached.
Judy Blume
#42. Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.
Robert Ruark
#43. I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.
Dean Koontz
#44. He always told his daughter the rest of it, quietly and solemnly, but Jean Louise sometimes thought she detected an unmistakably profane glint in Atticus Finch's eyes, or was it merely the light hitting his glasses? She never knew.
Harper Lee
#45. I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.
Wynton Marsalis
#46. I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
Ulysses S. Grant
#47. She has bitten into a crisp juicy apple and wondered if the bite and the thought were connected
one never knew what went together, and seemingly random acts could be cosmically related.
Delia Ephron
#49. I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.
Phil Niekro
#50. I never knew you had such a fine eye for fabrics," I said as we continued up the street. "You should have been a tailor instead of a thief."
"I have a fine eye for all things, amira, which is why I'm a thief and not a tailor.
Heidi Heilig
#51. I know my place. I always did. I just never knew how to get there.
Luke Taylor
#52. 'Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the tone was subtly comprehensive, or just a form of cowardice.
Alan Hollinghurst
#53. She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.
Shel Silverstein
#54. I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you
Diana Palmer
#55. I'll keep looking- till that watery reflection of mine in your eye, rolls down as a tear. I'll keep looking till we finally look away like our lives never met. Let's cheat destiny as if we never knew each other. Let's do this last thing together.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#56. Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie
#57. Is Joe your father, Zach?'
I don't know where the question came from, but it was out, and I couldn't take it back even if I'd wanted to.
'No.' Zach shook his head. 'I never knew my dad. I don't know anything about him.
Ally Carter
#58. I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
Anne Rice
#59. You were right. I'm going to make you want things you never knew you wanted.
Meredith Wild
#60. My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
Shirley Maclaine
#61. I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for one until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.
Neil Gaiman
#62. I'll give her every orgasm she never knew she wanted.
K. Webster
#63. My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
Eminem
#64. I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.
Tommy Chong
#65. Somebody's girlfriend," she said. "Somebody's sister, somebody's daughter. All these things I never knew I was before, and I still don't really know what I am.
Cassandra Clare
#66. The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#67. You never knew how good you had it until you saw how bad someone else did. Hey!
Brittainy C. Cherry
#68. The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.
David Miliband
#69. My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.
Rick Wakeman
#70. I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
Robert Peel
#71. The crazy thing is, I never knew that a wiener could actually make me nauseous.
Jessica Simpson
#72. All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.
Thomas Ligotti
#73. I like finding things no one else is looking for. Things that got lost or forgotten, shoved in a corner. Stuff I never knew existed. I don't even need to buy it. I just like to find it and know that it's there. That's the part I like.
Katja Millay
#74. You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you, but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.
Stephen Schwartz
#75. I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.
Terry Pratchett
#76. When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#77. It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.
Lev Grossman
#78. You've been drawing from a well that you never knew was bottomless and you just found out the unlimited depth of inhumanity,
Patricia Cornwell
#79. I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#80. My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
Dorothy Hamill
#81. I can't believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can't believe you didn't know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
Frida Kahlo
#84. After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.
Lynn Johnston
#85. Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
Walt Whitman
#86. And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.
Nicole Krauss
#87. My old black cat, he passed away this morning. He never knew what a heartache was. Woke up late and he danced till noon. If questioned why, answered just because. He never spoke much, preferring silence. Eight lost lives was all he had.
Ian Anderson
#88. Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.
Sarah Dessen
#89. I guess after all those years he had exhausted me. I never knew I was signing up for a battle, but I finally knew that he had won.
Deb Caletti
#90. I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet
#91. He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!
Cornelia Funke
#92. I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.
Aleksandar Hemon
#93. But what are you? Buddhist? Japanese? Communist? What?' 'I'm nothing.' 'Can you be nothing?' I never knew how to answer that question when I was asked it as a child, because the wording troubled me. Can you be nothing? I will be nothing.
Jaume Cabre
#94. The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.
Mona Simpson
#95. I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing.
Bonnie Bassler
#97. Until you came along, I never knew how much I'd been missing. I never knew that a touch could be so meaningful or an expression so eloquent; I never knew that a kiss could literally take my breath awa
Nicholas Sparks
#98. I'm going to destroy you, princess. I'll toy with you, tempt you, and give you everything you never knew to ask for.
Setta Jay
#99. But no, it's not the Ori I knew. It's an Ori I never knew. The Ori I made her into.
Nova Ren Suma
#100. I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
G. M. Trevelyan
