Quotes about anybody
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“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”
Source: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

"Sermons in Cats the musical"
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)

“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
Variant: I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
Source: Invisible Monsters

“Did anybody tell you that you're a few french fries short of a Happy Meal?”
Source: This Heart of Mine

“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”

“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”
Variant: I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
Source: On the Road

“I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself”
Source: Kafka on the Shore

Miss Viner
Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Context: I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.
“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”

"The Darlings at the Top of the Stairs", Lanterns & Lances (1961); previously appeared in The Queen and in Harper's Magazine.
From Lanterns and Lances

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read…”
Source: The Bone People

“I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.”
of first taking LSD, The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 177

“… You have me in your mouth, you don't get anybody else. Or you don't get me." - Jericho Barrons”
Source: Shadowfever

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Variant: No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world
Source: Dead Poets Society

“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All

“Artemis: I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.”
Source: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (2003)

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

"September,", p. 413
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Context: If the current polls are reliable... Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam. The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states... This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?

“To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.”

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.”

Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns

“I say looking on the bright side of life never killed anybody.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before


“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”
Source: Citizen Kane