- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you’ve never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 27, having never run for office before, I decided to run for Congress.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. I never enjoyed making films. I didn't like the whole film world - an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I'm used to.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
- Hay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people do work too much. I've never been able to understand the whole 'make hay while the sun shines' thing. Either I want to work or I don't want to work.
- Raise
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- Nov 07, 2020