Never Was Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Jenny Offill

#2. 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. - Author: Jeff Kinney

#3. You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting. - Author: Augusten Burroughs

#4. I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that." - Author: Kevin Systrom

#5. The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut. - Author: Rousas John Rushdoony

#6. You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us. - Author: Simon Sinek

#7. Anther spasm ripped through me and all I could wonder was why in the world had women been doing this for thousands of years? This was barbaric. This was torture. Never again. Never again as long as I lived would I have another baby, so Beep had better be pretty awesome. - Author: Darynda Jones

#8. 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. - Author: Gina Barreca

#9. 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. - Author: Abbi Glines

#10. To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. - Author: Hugh Laurie

#11. 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. - Author: Gretchen Carlson

#12. His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain. - Author: Alice Munro

#13. There never was an overseer on the whole plantation. The oldest colored man always looked after the niggers. We niggers lived better than the niggers on the other plantations. - Author: Norman R. Yetman

#14. 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. - Author: Kathryn Stockett

#15. 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. - Author: Jeanette Winterson

#16. As they lay entwined together afterwards, they both were sure their future was blessed, and it would never have occurred to them that Henry and Eleanor had once believed that, too. - Author: Sharon Kay Penman

#17. 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. - Author: Algernon Blackwood

#18. The next day Mrs Honeyfoot told her husband that John Segundus was exactly what a gentleman should be, but she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted. - Author: Susanna Clarke

#19. Leo was the only one who had never petitioned Francie for a loan using The Nest as collateral. Jack and Melody and Bea had all asked at one time that she consider an earlier dispersal, but she stubbornly refused.Until Leo's accident. - Author: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#20. They'd come for you, and this time they'd come with weapons.
I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.
Never afraid of you. - Author: Julio Alexi Genao

#21. They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks. - Author: Clint Eastwood

#22. I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need. - Author: Maeve Binchy

#23. I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom. - Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

#24. 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. - Author: Ken Baumann

#25. 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. - Author: Martin Clunes

#26. I never saw her down, you know? But those last two times, it was like she was . . . fading. As if someone was stealing her spirit. - Author: Nalini Singh

#27. The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. - Author: Steve Albini

#28. Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both. - Author: Allan Dare Pearce

#29. I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down. - Author: Louise Erdrich

#30. Her professionalism aside, Nabisase's victory was rigged by an endomorph and a goblin standing in crabgrass, and she would never know it. There are so many lives decided this way. - Author: Victor LaValle

#31. I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play. - Author: Dick Van Dyke

#32. She was spontaneous. Even in her cleverness. She never looked at people; people looked at her. It was her reward for being natural. - Author: Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#33. It's a grandmother's privilege never to have to show her grandchild who she was before she became a grandmother. - Author: Fredrik Backman

#34. I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger. - Author: Lita Ford

#35. I loved you, Tim. You were my first love. It was true. My father never changed that. He just made it impossible for me to see it through. - Author: Kindle Alexander

#36. I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable. - Author: Brad Garrett

#37. Original sin was always never knowing when to stop, sweetheart. - Author: Sarah Caulfield

#38. I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over. - Author: Eric Andre

#39. so-and-so is using?' You just knew. I never held it against anyone. It was one of those things where you knew they were just trying to keep their jobs, extend their careers. I guess I didn't - Author: John Feinstein

#40. 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. - Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

#41. I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show. - Author: George Clooney

#42. I never gave up rapping - it gave up on me. There was no industry and no appetite for UK rap back then and I had a daughter to feed. I couldn't keep doing something full time that didn't pay the bills. - Author: Doc Brown

#43. A Seth Thomas steeple clock stood on a high shelf. When it struck ten, Grandma jerked awake. She looked around the room astonished. It was her belief that she never slept, not even in bed. - Author: Richard Peck

#44. Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough. - Author: Elton John

#45. Not Alec Weebs? Never! Biffy was appreciatively shocked. - Author: Gail Carriger

#46. For years he'd strived to make a difference in the world, and he'd worked like a dog to make that happen, and yet here he was, a man sitting on a dock with his children, and never had he felt more certain that his words mattered. - Author: Kristin Hannah

#47. One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. - Author: Melina Marchetta

#48. I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really. - Author: Alan Bennett

#49. Every time you used, it was a risk searching for a high just like the first time, a high you would never find again. - Author: Bob Pastorella

#50. 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. - Author: Sara Teasdale

#51. The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want ... I want ... ,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it. - Author: Nancy Farmer

#52. 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. - Author: Suzi Quatro

#53. I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid. - Author: Armie Hammer

#54. The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored. - Author: Harry Reid

#55. I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's from a generation that never expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare to climb higher. - Author: Marlon James

#56. And suddenly I felt completely strange, like the distance between us was much much greater than what I could see from where I was standing. Like that line, always so clear to me, had somehow shifted, or never even been where I'd thought it was at all. - Author: Sarah Dessen

#57. I do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first. - Author: David Levithan

#58. 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. - Author: Meghan Daum

#59. 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. - Author: Cesar Aira

#60. I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. - Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs

#61. I'm sorry she never got her miracle.
she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you. - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#62. 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. - Author: Alan Furst

#63. She would never again lie in bed on a Good Friday morning and relax in the blissful knowledge that there was nothing to do and nowhere to be, because for the rest of her life, there would always, always be something left undone. An unmade confession. An ugly secret. - Author: Liane Moriarty

#64. 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. - Author: Scott Foley

#65. Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it. - Author: Sam Kean

#66. Dawson sprang off the bed, but his feet never touched the floor beside it. He hovered, staring down at himself. He was glowing.
Like in full motherfreaking alien mode up in her house, in her bedroom. - Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

#67. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me. - Author: Paula Hawkins

#68. 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. - Author: Jason Fuchs

#69. I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy. - Author: Ariana Grande

#70. 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. - Author: Barry Lyga

#71. Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us. - Author: Katharine Graham

#72. 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. - Author: Junot Diaz

#73. There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. - Author: Dennis Quaid

#74. I never felt like I was forced to do anything. - Author: Tove Styrke

#75. Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day. - Author: Harry Kemp

#76. How things ultimately turn out isn't up to us. It never was. But if do our bit and play our part, it's remarkable how far we can go. - Author: Michael Neill

#77. Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out. - Author: Fannie Flagg

#78. I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick. - Author: Joan Cusack

#79. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night. - Author: Jorge Posada

#80. Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet. - Author: Tess Oliver

#81. I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone. - Author: Mitch Albom

#82. It had been too long since she'd had some hot sex. She wasn't looking for a relationship. No, a one night stand was what she wanted. Anonymous sex with a handsome cowboy that she would never have to see again. - Author: Tamara Hoffa

#83. 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 - Author: Georgia Cates

#84. The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. - Author: Tecumseh

#85. 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. - Author: Laura Bush

#86. 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. - Author: Avril Lavigne

#87. She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?
He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.
But she wanted to. - Author: Marie Rutkoski

#88. I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong. - Author: Cokie Roberts

#89. I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit - the ones I had known were mostly white in the center and rock hard. But this was so luscious, so tart I thought it victorious. So - some tomatoes tasted like water, and some tasted like summer lightning. - Author: Stephanie Danler

#90. Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job. - Author: Alex Garland

#91. I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours."
"It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who's used themselves wisely and who's wasted? - Author: Tessa Hadley

#92. a tyrant, and a conqueror. He was never elected to the office. He would probably laugh at the idea. And if he did somehow decide to hold elections, he would magic the masses into electing him, because he would honestly believe that he was best qualified to rule wisely. Having - Author: Ilona Andrews

#93. And just like that he took me away into another world. A place where I was cherished, and where I could forget about a time when I never dared to dream about being loved like this. - Author: Raine Miller

#94. Yeah, the record for most titles was previously held by the Fabulous Moolah, she won it four times. And a few weeks ago, I won the title for the sixth time, which has never been done before. - Author: Trish Stratus

#95. The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears. - Author: Steven Tyler

#96. In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be. - Author: Zainab Salbi

#97. This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be. - Author: Robin Hobb

#98. Eleanor Roosevelt never thought that she was attractive. She never thought that she was really sufficiently appealing. And I think her whole life was a response to her effort to get her mother to pay attention to her, to love her, and to love her as much as she loved her brothers. - Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook

#99. Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation. - Author: Robert Jordan

#100. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours. - Author: Esther Dalseno