“Nobody knows who said it first, but somebody must have: 'Kid's gotta be a maniac.”

“Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.”

Harper Lee (1926–2016) American author

“Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway."
"Says the kid who came back."
"Yeah, kind of proves my point.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

“I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there's somebody nobody knows about”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

“Nobody is a born killer. And nobody ever forgets the first time they get laid, nor the first time they spike somebody.”

Steve Perry (1947) American writer

“I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.”

John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist

“Somebody said…We got to find the words
Got to, got to be an answer there
Somebody said that…You never get heard
'Cause nobody really cares.”

Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician

“Who is Alice?" asked mother.
"Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger”

Russell Hoban (1925–2011) American British novelist, children's writer and illustrator

“That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!”

Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician