Source: The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939), p. 20
“Nobody could work a room like Rod—nobody.”
Rod Blagojevich (1956) Former Governor of Illinois
Jan Schakowsky, to Chicago Magazine, 2009 <br class="br">Source: Chicago Straight, David, Bernstein, June 2009, Chicago magazine, Tribune Media Group, June 29, 2015 http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/June-2009/Chicago-Straight/,
“If dogs could fly, nobody would go out without an umbrella.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Stephen King (StephenKing) 4 sept 2017 18:28 Tweet https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/904878959766245377
Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City
http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/29/bloombergs_memo.php
Illegal Immigration
“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway”
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist
“Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.”
John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 4, p. 74
Context: They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head.
“Let's face it, nobody could paint eyes like El Greco, and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.”
Walter Keane (1915–2000) American plagiarist
Referring to himself in the third person, page 39. Cited also in " The lady behind those Keane-eyed kids https://books.google.com/books?id=2FMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56," LIFE 69, no. 21 (20 November 1970), p. 56; by Amy M. Spindler, " Style; An Eye for an Eye http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/23/magazine/style-an-eye-for-an-eye.html," The New York Times (23 May 1999); and by Jesse Hamlin, " Artist Margaret Keane hasn't lost wide-eyed enthusiasm for work http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Artist-Margaret-Keane-hasn-t-lost-wide-eyed-5955625.php," SFGate (14 Decembet 2014). <br class="br">1965, Cited by Jane Howard
“Nobody could believe in me the way I believed in myself.”
Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”
Alice Walker book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Source: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Susan Sontag book On Photography
"America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly", p. 31
On Photography (1977)
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
