I realized Quotes · Page 13

I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized…

— Paul Auster

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you…

— Keith Ferrazzi

As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable-until I realized it wasn't a…

— Jack Handey

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

— John Green

I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.

— Mindy Kaling

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I…

— Jim Gaffigan

I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency…

— Victoria Finlay

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

— Muhammad Ali

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop…

— Keith Jarrett

I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's…

— Nick Vujicic

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where…

— Chantal Kreviazuk

So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I…

— Chaz Bono

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors…

— Ang Lee

And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block,…

— Janet Fitch

My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I…

— George Clooney

When I was touring and spending so much time on the bus, I realized that I actually knew very little about the…

— Ty Herndon

I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way,…

— Nick Lowe

Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Growing up and applying to college, I just imagined that I would study acting. But then, once I went to college, I…

— Sophia Takal

When the film [Certified Copy] was in the Cannes Festival, I realized that the fact of having it shot in a different…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I've been doing my own makeup for red carpet events for years, but it wasn't until I met my business partner Divya…

— Lindsay Ellingson

One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more…

— William J. Clinton

I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And…

— James Lipton

The key thing is figuring out what your issues are, and it's really never about the food. You have to be real…

— Jennifer Hudson

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my…

— Scott Wolf

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all…

— Sebastian Horsley

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

— Martin Puryear

I realized this weak that I just cannot do it all. So I will choose to do what i can, fabulously.

— Clinton Kelly

I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot…

— DJ Shadow

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

— Roger Daltrey

I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little…

— Kieran Hebden

I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

— Patrick Lussier

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's…

— Trey Parker

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

— Dino De Laurentiis

The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be,…

— Donald E. Graham

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always…

— Ingrid Law

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

...five minutes from now, when everything else had dropped away and I realized the full impact of what I’d done, I’d feel…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of…

— Melanie Martinez