Realized Quotes

In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.

I didn't want to fall back. But I realized it was more important to make it to the end under my own power than to run flat out in the lead or in second and then run out of fuel with a lap to go.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

Well, I realized finally that all of the hard work paid off.

I used to be an atheist until I realized that I was God.

As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I'm working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I don't smoke is when I'm home. I didn't even realize I'd become a smoker.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

I realized I needed to address people, not just dress them.

I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.

I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.

When I realized, "Hm, I'm not that good at all. It will take me weeks, maybe months, to master the 32 yolks." When I did, it was a turning point in my career.

I realized that I needed to know more about the business side of things. I don't like feeling uneducated about things, and feeling uneducated about my own business felt ridiculous.

I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.

I started conducting lessons and I realized that this is actually something I like doing.

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

I've taken care of it," I said My father looked at me, shocked. Then I realized "taken care of" had a very specific meaning in his line of work. "No, no, I mean he's gone.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

That's when the idea for Mad About the Boy arrived. It wasn't even a Bridget [Jones] story initially - then I realized I was writing in Bridget's voice and it grew from there into a Bridget novel.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.

I realized that I'm a child." William looked point-blank at her chest. "No.

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.