When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

- Howard Nemerov

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

- Sarah Waters

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

- Steven Pinker

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

- Nell Newman

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

- Lina Wertmuller

It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description.

- Lesley Manville

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

- Lee Konitz

When I was 12, that's when I went to college. All my friends were 20, 21, and I was 12. It didn't even occur to me that that was strange.

- Joshua Bell

It just didn't occur to me, sitting at my computer, that I would end up travelling all over the world.

- Jimmy Wales

I gotta take notes when things occur to me.

- Jeff Bridges

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

- Arthur Levitt

I think my mouth just opens and I spontaneously say things that occur to me.

- Helena Bonham Carter

Freedom can occur only through education.

- Friedrich Schiller

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

- Edward de Bono

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

- Dianne Feinstein

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

- David Byrne

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

- Dan Quayle

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

- Chaim Weizmann

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

- Carla Bruni

It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

- Baron Hill