You Never Crossed My Mind Quotes

#1. When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist.

William Landay

#2. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind,

Robin S. Sharma

#3. I spent nearly two hours deciding on an outfit that would look as if the subject of clothing had never crossed my mind, but would in fact show off my best features and miraculously hide the extra pounds.

Rosanne Cash

#4. I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Anna Quindlen

#5. He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.

Martin Amis

#6. As a young, ambitious novelist, writing for kids never crossed my mind.

Rodman Philbrick

#7. It never really crossed my mind that I was ever going to win a major. I always said that if you win a major, that's fine. If you don't, you tried your best.

Vijay Singh

#8. So thought crossed my mind," Liam said suddenly.
"That must've been a lonely journey," Chubs said flipping the pages of his book.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song.

Caleb Followill

#10. When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems - it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize.

Simon Kuznets

#11. It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

Muriel Barbery

#12. It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

Stephen Frears

#13. I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.

Sheldon Adelson

#14. I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

Christopher Walken

#15. Variety has always been in my mind: to do something totally different. I've had a parallel career since the beginning. On one track, the TV and film, the other, theatre, but they never crossed.

Sylvester McCoy

#16. After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

Merlin Olsen

#17. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.

Liane Moriarty

#18. Was it possible to be in love with two people at the same time? It wasn't something I'd ever considered before. My Barbie never married Ken and G.I. Joe, the idea had never crossed my mind.

Alyne Hart

#19. The thought of giving up alcohol crossed my mind too, but I was soon reminded of the promise to Ketel One, Grey Goose, and other top-shelf vodkas that I had made in my early twenties. Never turn your back on someone who has asked nothing in return.

Chelsea Handler

#20. Acting never crossed my mind for a moment when I was growing up.

Tommy Flanagan

#21. It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

Edmund S. Muskie

#22. It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

Patricia Riggen

#23. Never mind the creepy eyes peeking in our windows at night, and following our every move as we drove around. No, that was all good, but stalking us in a grocery story? Line crossed, man.

Brandy Nacole

#24. I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

Christopher Judge

#25. When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap

Eminem

#26. It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

Gioconda Belli

#27. It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

Jack Osbourne

#28. People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'

Bill Hader

#29. For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.

Peter Schuyler

#30. Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

Dexter Darden

#31. The fact that he might have other things to do with his time than spend it shepherding his master's head-strong, thousand-ducat-a-night anguisette through one of the most unsavory quarters of the City never crossed my mind.

Jacqueline Carey