Top 100 Occurred To Me Quotes
#1. 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
#2. My lord," catherine asked,her eyes wide, "do you think that has anything to do with the Ramsay curse?"
"Actually, that hadn't occurred to me yet," Leo said, "thank you so much for bringing it to my attention.
Lisa Kleypas
#3. I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her success. But the one thing I am jealous of is the number of awesome, interesting, artistic, productive, and cool people she gets to hang out with all day.
Christopher Noxon
#4. 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
#5. I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.
Maya Lin
#6. It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.
Mark Morris
#7. 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
#8. Just go around being alive, and pointing at things. We're just, simply, in the world. It had never occurred to me what a wonderful thing this was.
Caitlin Moran
#9. It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
Camryn Manheim
#10. And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.
Louise Erdrich
#11. It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.
Pat Schneider
#12. 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
#13. It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
Dee Dee Myers
#14. It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#15. It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.
Karel Capek
#16. Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange as our actual adventures.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#17. The bus had a name too. Elaborately painted letters across the back declared it to be "Old but Sexy." It occurred to me that as I slipped inexorably into middle age, such a title might be the best I myself could hope for.
Lyn Hamilton
#18. It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.
Melissa Bank
#19. 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
#20. It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.
Herbert Bayard Swope
#21. It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]
William Shockley
#22. night's sleep!' she said. 'Every day I think, gosh you look a bit tired today, and it's just recently occurred to me that it's not that I'm tired,
Liane Moriarty
#23. It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.
Moon Unit Zappa
#24. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#25. 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
#26.
and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.
Chuck Klosterman
#27. Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.
Kit Williams
#28. I felt free this time, knowing I had a job and that I wasn't going to be graded. I could simply experiment and create. The thought occurred to me that if I always lived under the certainty of God's provision instead of the certainty of Lexi's worry, I might always feel this free.
Sandra Byrd
#29. 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
#30. One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.
Jane Wagner
#31. What a clear, poweful emotion - thankfulness. It hadn't occurred to me in a long time that I could be someone that another person would be thankful for. Not for anything I'd done or said, but simply for who I was, and who I had the potential to be.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#32. I grew up expecting to see the first man land on the moon. It never occurred to me that I'd see the last one. We thought there'd be a moon base.
Terry Pratchett
#33. It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game.
Ernest Cline
#34. Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.
Tosca Lee
#35. We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.
Sam Shepard
#36. 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
#37. Why didn't I decide to drink a glass of juice? The thought never occurred to me. Am I free to do that which does not occur to me to do? Of course not.
Sam Harris
#38. I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.
Dean Ween
#39. It had not occurred to me that it would get this bad, that indignity would dance upon bloodshed.
Miranda July
#40. 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
#41. I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
Judy Blume
#42. It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
Ilka Chase
#43. 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
#44. And it really was kind of the moon to shine on me, too, and out of modesty I was about to place myself under the arch of the tower bridge when it occurred to me that the moon, of course, shone on everything. So I happily spread out my arms in order fully to enjoy the moon.
Franz Kafka
#45. It occurred to me that might not be the best of ideas, but desperate times led to stupid measures.
Robyn Peterman
#46. When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
Ben Bova
#47. 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
#48. Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#49. Sometimes, when I tell folk my story, they ask why I did not run away from the pagans, why I did not escape southward into the lands where the Danes did not yet rule, but it never occurred to me to try. I was happy, I was alive, I was with Ragnar, and it was enough.
Bernard Cornwell
#50. I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd
#52. 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
#53. it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Alan Bradley
#54. A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
Russell Hoban
#55. It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
Richelle Mead
#56. 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
#57. Wow" is all I can say. I'm amazed. It never occurred to me to change the clothes to fit me. I always thought it had to be the other way around. And it never occurred to me that people who aren't overweight could have trouble with the off the rack sizes.
K.A. Barson
#58. I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.
Terry Pratchett
#59. It never occurred to me that anyone would name a nuclear missile "Peacekeeper". It never occurred to me that thousands of people would be killed in the name of "peace-keeping".
Assata Shakur
#60. It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film.
Duane Jones
#61. It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.
Kitty Carlisle
#62. how 'man is the extension of woman 'occurred to me is so starnge
Makarand Fulzele
#63. I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were just waiting for us to go down in flames. I thought we could get through anything.
Kristan Higgins
#64. I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
Larry David
#65. 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
#66. I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight
#67. But I did get to see the sunrise from 36,000 feet above the ground, and it occurred to me that until a century ago, no one in all of human history had ever seen that.
John Green
#68. It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.
Robin McKinley
#69. I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#70. I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.
Gillian Flynn
#71. It occurred to me that a lot of beauty has to do with believing it yourself. That half of what we see is just the way it is presented.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
#72. When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said, "Novels," and she said, "You should be writing them then." Memoir never even occurred to me. I think I was afraid of nonfiction and I was afraid of navel-gazing, and of being seen.
Melissa Febos
#73. I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.
Joey Lauren Adams
#74. I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
Queen Latifah
#75. It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.
Isabel Wilkerson
#76. An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.
Anton Chekhov
#77. Until that moment, it hadn't occurred to me that my grades and test scores over the years were anything more than individual humiliations; I hadn't realized that one day all of them would add up and count against me.
Melissa Bank
#78. It had never occurred to me that simply being with a fellow prisoner would make me feel like I was still in prison.
Elizabeth Wein
#79. It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
W. Averell Harriman
#81. Never had it occurred to me that the things that had happened to me ... might be a kind of trauma.
Jennifer Sky
#82. I keep trying to get rid of this thing, but somehow it keeps finding its way back to me. What made you keep it?" "It occurred to me that if I could find the cyborg that fit this foot, it must be a sign we were meant to be together.
Marissa Meyer
#83. I was down on myself so much for what I saw as not pushing back sometimes that it had never occurred to me that took its own strength.
Richelle Mead
#84. 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
#85. The chilling thought occurred to me that breaking up with someone you love to criticize might be the only way to save yourself from becoming unlovable
Bob Smith
#86. When I connected with Raine physically, I could feel every bit of her soul within my own. It had never even occurred to me before that I might have a soul.
Shay Savage
#87. I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.
Henry Rollins
#88. 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
#89. It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. It never occurred to me that she might travel from one man to the next to avoid being abandoned. Or to avoid being worshiped like a goddess, a worship she both relished and despised.
Alan Lightman
#91. The possibility has occurred to me that the proper condition of man, which is to say that condition in which he is most admirable, may not be that prosperity, peace, and harmony which I labored to give to Rome." He has founded his empire, in other words, on a misconception. This
John Williams
#92. Had he liked her all along? Was she the girl he saw every day and was I the girl who fed him and showered him with kisses once a week? It occurred to me that maybe all the time he omitted in our stolen conversations wasn't simply long, boring hours of inventory. I was too angry to cry.
Kiera Cass
#93. I preferred not to respond. (Although several replies occurred to me.)
Roberto Bolano
#94. 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
#95. He still had his eyes on me, and it occurred to me that he was thinking the same thing as I was; that I was very underdressed to be here. I needed to leave, and quickly. But I didn't know how to say goodbye ...
A. Esquivel
#96. As I turned into my driveway, it occurred to me that I would have loved to curl up with a good man instead of a good book tonight. But that ship had sailed for me. Literally.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#97. I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.
Amy Pascal
#98. It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.
Michel De Montaigne
#99. Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in music is simply the influence that science plays in my life: working in laboratories, thinking of models, hypothesis, putting things together, trying to make sense of it all and so forth.
Dave Soldier
#100. It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it
Charles Darwin
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