“Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.”
Steven Brust (1955) American fantasy and science fiction author
Quotes about everybody page 5
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
As quoted in What Color is Your Paradigm: Thinking for Shaping Life and Results (2003) by Howard Edson, p. 184
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx
“Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”
Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”
Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist
“Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.”
John Updike book Rabbit, Run
Source: Rabbit, Run
Ken Wilber (1949) American writer and public speaker
Introduction, Collected Works of Ken Wilber, vol. VIII (2000) http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/cowokev8_intro.cfm/ <br class="br">Context: The real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought about including them in your own worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all of the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum. I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. To Freudians I say, Have you looked at Buddhism? To Buddhists I say, Have you studied Freud? To liberals I say, Have you thought about how important some conservative ideas are? To conservatives I say, Can you perhaps include a more liberal perspective? And so on, and so on, and so on... At no point I have ever said: Freud is wrong, Buddha is wrong, liberals are wrong, conservatives are wrong. I have only suggested that they are true but partial. My critical writings have never attacked the central beliefs of any discipline, only the claims that the particular discipline has the only truth — and on those grounds I have often been harsh. But every approach, I honestly believe, is essentially true but partial, true but partial, true but partial.<br>And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial...
Variant: We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
Source: Lock and Key
Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer
Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
“If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 226
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll
“Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Statement to the Associated Press, five days before his death. (13 May 1981)
“The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.”
Neal Cassady (1926–1968) American cultural figure of 1950s and 1960s
Source: First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue
Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
Source: All Families are Psychotic
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)
Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer
Source: Drowning Instinct
“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Source: John Mayer: Battle Studies
“Everybody must have a fantasy.”
Andy Warhol book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.”
George Bernard Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession
Crofts, Act III
Variant: There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
Source: 1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)
“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Composition as Explanation (1926)
Context: For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
Context: No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
“Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”
Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad
Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Variant: Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
Source: Invisible Monsters
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Power power, everybody like wants power”
Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
Variant: Power, power, everybody like wants power
“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Source: The Age of Innocence
“Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.”
Sharon Shinn book Archangel
Source: Archangel
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Source: The Garden of Eden
Ford Madox Ford book The Good Soldier
Part Four, Ch. V (pp. 237-238)
Source: The Good Soldier (1915)
Context: It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.
Is there any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people — like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
Neil deGrasse Tyson book Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
Source: The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman
Source: The Bronze Horseman
“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer
“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Source: Democracy in America
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: Prime of Life
“Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.”
Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule
Source: Wizard's First Rule
Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Variant: There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”
Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer
Source: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”
Jane Austen book Mansfield Park
Source: Mansfield Park
“Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.”
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
“Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.”
John Irving book The World According to Garp
Source: The World According to Garp
“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer