Never Would Have Guessed Quotes

#1. I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

Jack McBrayer

#2. I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.

Dee Williams

#3. I never would have guessed that matches and lighters would be among the things I'd miss the most if civilization collapsed

Mike Mullin

#4. The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.

Joel Burns

#5. I always thought that funerals were meant for the living to say good-bye to a loved one. I never would have guessed that it's actually the other way around.

Anthony Greer

#6. The pain'll start creeping in again by midnight, but that should give us enough time to talk this through." He sipped again and gave me a look of rueful amusement. "Human things are terrific right to the end, it seems like. I never would have guessed.

Stephen King

#7. I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

Matt Reeves

#8. Magnus knelt first. Clary would never have guessed that. Magnus was so proud, but then it was a pride that transcended the emptiness of gestures. She doubted it would shame him to kneel when it meant nothing to him.

Cassandra Clare

#9. I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

Vernor Vinge

#10. His words are the essence of truth ... Jesus never uttered opinions. He never guessed; He knew, and He knows.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#11. Sandor Boatly had never guessed that, properly played, baseball consisted of mathematics, geometry, art, philosophy, ballet, and carnival, all intertwined like the mystical ribbons of color in a rainbow.

W.P. Kinsella

#12. And that, I guessed, was the aim of the Lord Chamberlain's Men: to serve up rich helpings of life to their audiences, to introduce them to people they would never otherwise meet, to stretch their minds and heart to fill a greater world.

J.B. Cheaney

#13. I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

Pico Iyer

#14. Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should.

Doug Harvey

#15. As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

William Manchester

#16. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her ... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#17. I was never sure what vampire powers Teddy had been gifted with. Victoria had the ability to read minds. Meekah could see visions of the future. Michael had been given eternal sexiness, I guessed.

S.J. Wright

#18. I lived in New York for 10 years, I loved it, I never second-guessed it. There were definitely times when I thought, "I will never leave this place." And I kind of got into that center-of-the-universe mindset.

Ed Helms

#19. The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

Percy Grainger

#20. But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.

Kiera Cass

#21. She wasn't crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she'd accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling,

Clarice Lispector

#22. I'd never have guessed which people I'd still know by now.

Sarah Manguso

#23. She had known for months now that something or someone would have to break to end this painful stalemate they were locked in. She had never guessed it would be Dominic. She had never guessed Dominic could be broken.

Laura Andersen

#24. Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon
as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.

Hortense Calisher

#25. I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.

Olivia De Havilland

#26. What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

Bo Burnham

#27. I had never actually seen an eight-pack, but there it was, right in front of me. I guessed that even slightly strange, silent hermits weren't exempt from exceptional physiques. Good for him.

Mia Sheridan

#28. This world will never be ... what i expected ... and if i don't belong ... who would've guessed it?

Three Days Grace

#29. Never would I have guessed I'd fall so comfortably into the role of husband and father. Never would I have guessed I'd be married to a human. And I certainly wouldn't have guessed I'd be so happy without spirit.

Richelle Mead

#30. I always thought there were no secrets in a small town, but I'd never guessed that one.

Kaitlyn Dunnett

#31. In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

Coco Chanel

#32. We could never have guessed
We were already blessed
where we are ...

James Taylor

#33. Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He'd never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

Claudia Gray

#34. You never did ask each other anything, did you? And you never told each other anything. You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. A deaf-and-dumb asylum, in fact!

Edith Wharton

#35. The girls were riveted by Georgia's lecture on the importance of sports bras and the dangers of the uni-boob, double busting, slippage, unsightly bulges, and my personal favorite, head lighting. I thought she made valid points and I would never have guessed that bouncing boobs were so problematic.

Ashlan Thomas

#36. She was used to taking the world as it was, she'd never have guessed you could get what you wanted by asking for it.

Janet Fitch

#37. To celebrate my first hour of freedom. It's been going on nearly six months, and all at once I've thrown it off. I could never have guessed, even yesterday how easy it would be to put an end to it if I wanted.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#38. What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

Quentin Tarantino

#39. He tugged my zipper down like he was unveiling a gift, spreading my pants open. "Yeah. There it is. You have a nice fat dick. I would have never guessed it."
"I'm Italian," I said inanely.

L.B. Gregg

#40. Between the lines of every story there is another story, and that is one that is never heard and can only be guessed at by the people who are good at guessing.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#41. Ah, you are amusing."
"I am not amusing!" I lifted my chin. "I'm pissed."
"Really," he replied dryly. "I never would've guessed that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#42. Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.

Paula McLain

#43. I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears;

Emily Bronte

#44. People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

Carson Kressley

#45. What are you doing here? They shared one of those awkward kiss-hug-or-what moments, ending up kissing on the cheek. Odd, that. She and Lex had never really been cheek-kissers, but since they weren't kissing anywhere else these days she guessed it was the thing to do.

Stacia Kane

#46. I'd never have guessed that, six years after Medicare introduced a drug benefit, it would still be forbidden to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies. Health reform might fix that, but it probably won't.

Timothy Noah