Never Occurred Quotes
99 Never Occurred quotes by 88 unique authors
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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
— Danielle Steel
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I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
— Gene Tierney
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world…
— Gore Vidal
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I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights,…
— Ayelet Waldman
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any…
— Oscar Wilde
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It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just…
— Sarah Dessen
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It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by…
— George Orwell
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It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never…
— Michael Crichton
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It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as…
— Colum McCann
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I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take…
— Lauren Oliver
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I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to…
— Michael Cunningham
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Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple…
— Terry Pratchett
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I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind,…
— Eric Weiner
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It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason…
— Dan Brown
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Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to…
— Douglas Adams
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It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working…
— Kathryn Stockett
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When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother.…
— Wendy Mass
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It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would…
— Justin Cronin
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Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I…
— Jeanette Winterson
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He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the…
— E. M. Forster
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