Occurred To Me Quotes

#1. I looked over at Edwart. It occurred to me that I had never seen him in direct sunlight. Interestingly enough, I had also never seen him sparkle. Could the two be related?

The Harvard Lampoon

#2. It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

Banana Yoshimoto

#3. It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS."

- Wade Owen Watts
Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

#4. Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.

Peter Saul

#5. I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery store or cycling home, sung as best I can over a bunch of chords.

Withered Hand

#6. It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.

Mary Harron

#7. In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

Farrah Fawcett

#8. I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."

Daniel Handler

#9. When we broke the surface again the first thing I saw was the great bold stripe of the Milky Way painted across the heavens, and it occurred to me that together the fish and the stars formed a complete system, coincident parts of some ancient and mysterious whole.

Ransom Riggs

#10. It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.

Patrick Carman

#11. For instance, I never wrote to my MP to express my displeasure at the widespread deployment of sleeping policemen around the capital. It never occurred to me to do so: Mo and I don't own a car, and speed bumps

Charles Stross

#12. I suspected that they hadn't relocated to the coldest place on Earth and then taken up disemboweling pigs because things were going well in Europe, but it had never occurred to me to ask for the story. I

Hope Jahren

#13. I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

Victoria Principal

#14. Something occurred to me on the way. "Does your dad know you've got his his flask?" I asked Josephine.
"Yes, he's probably worked it out by now," Josephine said.

Sophia McDougall

#15. I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#16. It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments.

Piper Kerman

#17. It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

Patty Griffin

#18. People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

Edgar Degas

#19. It has never occurred to me before, but this is truly how it is: all of us on earth walk constantly over a seething, scarlet sea of flame, hidden below, in the belly of the earth. We never think of it. But what if the thin crust under our feet should turn into glass and we should suddenly see?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#20. I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

Fred Melamed

#21. I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.

Julio Cortazar

#22. It occurred to me that with all of today's technologies, there were now more ways than ever to know with abosolute certainty that no one wanted to get in touch with me

Linwood Barclay

#23. My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

Barbara Pym

#24. It had occurred to me that all human beings are divided into those who wish to move forward and those who wish to go back. Or you could say, those who wish to keep moving and those who want to be stopped in their tracks as by the blazing sword.

Louise Gluck

#25. Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns.

Cesar Milstein

#26. It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

Charlie Kaufman

#27. It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

Sam Kinison

#28. One of the reasons that I accepted, once asked to do Star Trek, was to give a single child a chance to see the long thought, to see themselves some 400 years hence. It occurred to me that we must ensure that we keep in front of children the ever-changing horizon.

Avery Brooks

#29. The thought occurred to me that she could easily take her knife and slash it though my spine.

Alexandra Bracken

#30. It's not like I ever thought I'd live forever - or wanted to - but it had never occurred to me that I might die before I'd lived.

Tanya Byrne

#31. I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

Tim Daly

#32. I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that's not in an Olympic competitor's vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment.

Dorothy Hamill

#33. It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar
maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless
and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.

Maggie Stiefvater

#34. It occurred to me with a certain uncomfortable forcefulness that I didn't know the first thing about the only planet I was ever going to live on.

Bill Bryson

#35. All those years when I was a child, longing for it to be 'my turn,' it hadn't ever occurred to me that my turn would be over, by and by.

Anne Tyler

#36. I had always liked him, but it never really occurred to me to like him, like him.

John Green

#37. I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#38. Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.

Dan Jenkins

#39. my foolishness had me believe that i was the story, and this bleak cold night merely its setting, but in fact my real story played itself out almost independently of me or, more precisely, occurred parallel to my own little adventures.

Peter Nadas

#40. In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

Hakim Bey

#41. It occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can.

Bill Bryson

#42. It never occurred to me to be an actor.

John Malkovich

#43. It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

Elizabeth Kostova

#44. It occurred to me that the business of surviving precluded a great many things, exploring and falling in love not least among them.

Ransom Riggs

#45. Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.

Sarah Dessen

#46. She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted
it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.

Ken Kesey

#47. I knew I might die, but I was prepared to risk that; it was almost romantic. Somehow it never occurred to me it might entail privation and suffering.

Iain M. Banks

#48. I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

Ahmet Ertegun

#49. It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.

Maggie Stiefvater

#50. This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#51. ...it occurred to me that I was stuck somewhere in between, with neither the blind confidence of youth that everything would turn out as imagined nor the experience that builds up as years pass that i wouldn't matter if it didn't.

Neve Maslakovic

#52. And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal.
That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

N.K. Jemisin

#53. Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.

Liz Murray

#54. It's occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.

Herman Wouk

#55. Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#56. It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

Ree Drummond

#57. It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

Mark Morris

#58. I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.

Michael Ian Black

#59. Even with this disaster I had dragged us all into, she was still proud to be my mother. It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments. I hoped that our resemblance extended beyond our blue eyes.

Piper Kerman

#60. It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

Melissa Bank

#61. It occurred to me that we were the same, in a way. Both of us treading water, pushing against forces we couldn't control.

Heather Demetrios

#62. Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Amity Gaige

#63. My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

Ruby Dee

#64. It was my moment of wondering what, in my life, had been my golden pin like Schindler's, the thing so precious to me that it never occurred to me to use it to ransom the life of someone else.

Christine Caine

#65. He gazed at me. "You've grown up honey." It felt good to hear it. I thought maybe he was right. Then it occurred to me that if I really had grown up I wouldn't want to be told.

Melissa Bank

#66. My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

James Thurber

#67. It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

William Ruckelshaus

#68. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing

Paul Kalanithi

#69. It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's.

Terry Pratchett

#70. how 'man is the extension of woman 'occurred to me is so starnge

Makarand Fulzele

#71. It occurred to me, not for the first time, that if Britain is ever to sort itself out, it is going to require a lot of euthanasia.

Bill Bryson

#72. I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

Lady Starlight

#73. It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.

Mark Twain

#74. I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Amy Bloom

#75. He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.

Micheal Punke

#76. I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.

Steve-O

#77. It occurred to me that the movement of the amputated knob perfectly schematized what it would look like for someone to try to turn somersaults with one hand nailed to the floor. This was how I first became interested in the possibilities of annulation.

David Foster Wallace

#78. by exposing something I have seen to someone with eyes to see it differently from me, might spark some insights that would not have otherwise occurred to either of us. And

Yuval Levin

#79. For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the premise for 'The Keepsake' occurred to me: what if an 'ancient' mummy turns out to have a bullet in its leg? How does a modern murder victim get turned into a mummy?

Tess Gerritsen

#80. I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

Johnny Marr

#81. It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

David Levithan

#82. The paradox about waking up - I mean the ordinary kind of waking up that occurred to you and me this morning - is that you can't make it happen, yet it's inevitable. The same holds true spiritually. You can't wish, pray, beg, force, or meditate yourself awake.

Alan W. Watts

#83. And it now occurred to me that maybe the whole point was, in fact, to lose yourself. But not in the sense of confusion
in the sense of connection to something bigger than yourself ... Getting lost to be found.

Tanuja Desai Hidier

#84. For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

Gene Tierney

#85. I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

Eugene Mirman

#86. And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.

Orson Scott Card

#87. I dropped back onto the sofa thinking of how I spent the past few weeks under the watchful eyes of the De Campo men. It never occurred to me that they were around for my protection. I just thought that they wanted to hang out.

Stephanie James

#88. Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

Ron Rash

#89. Now as I began to sort through his "effects" it occurred to me how little I had really known him ... I had forced upon my father the character that fitted most easily with my image of myself; to have had to admit to any complexity in him would have compromised my own.

David Malouf

#90. It occurred to me that more than loss, it was the longing that hurt the most.

Samantha Young

#91. Was this a bad thing for a Christian to be doing? Probably. On the other hand, it had never occurred to me to ask the Methodist minister if he had a ritual in place to sever a blood bond between a woman and a vampire.

Charlaine Harris

#92. I thought I'd sit write down and right you a letter. Just words on paper to last you for a lifetime. But it occurred to me when I thought back and remembered, that the better me begins and ends with you.

Nick Moccia

#93. Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear shorts. I'd look too silly to wear shorts.

Dan Jenkins

#94. I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.

Amy Pascal

#95. I would've never done a 1970's road movie. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. So when he started talking about it he brought up all these movies and he'll do that with you guys and you'll feel the Goosebumps as you start realizing the story that he wanted to tell.

Todd Farmer

#96. I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.

John Mackey

#97. I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto.

Terry Teachout

#98. It occurred to me one evening, as I sat by myself in Al's patio, that a man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. I'd been doing it for ten years and I had a feeling that my reserve was running low.

Hunter S. Thompson

#99. One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

Hermann Hesse

#100. [Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was ... He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.

Joe Haldeman