“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/29/bloombergs_memo.php
Illegal Immigration
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Daniel J. Bernstein (1971) American mathematician, cryptologist and programmer
15 January 2005
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/49c4cd60d948032d
On testing
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician
The last line of this last stanza is also sometimes rendered "This land is made for you and me."
This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
“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
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Machine Gun"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)
“Nobody has ever said the negotiation would be straightforward and simple.”
Chris Grayling (1962) British politician
Interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05k0894 (15 October 2017) <br class="br">2017
“She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside.”
Avril Lavigne (1984) Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
"Nobody's Home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eLfvdeInFg (2004)