Quotes about nobody
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Gabriel García Márquez photo
E.E. Cummings photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
David Levithan photo
U.G. Krishnamurti photo

“To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man."”

U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher

Part 2: The Mystique of Enlightenment
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

“Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.”

Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer

Source: Goodnight Tweetheart

Libba Bray photo
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Derek Landy photo
Oprah Winfrey photo

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist
E.E. Cummings photo
Neal Shusterman photo
Jonathan Safran Foer photo
Allen Ginsberg photo

“What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?”

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet

Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

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“Poor empty pants
With nobody inside them.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
Rod Serling photo
Brandon Mull photo
Harper Lee photo
E.E. Cummings photo

“I am Nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.”

Dandi Daley Mackall American writer

Source: Love Rules

Cassandra Clare photo

“Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.”

Source: Lady Midnight

Holly Black photo
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Chuck Palahniuk photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Martin Heidegger photo
Graham Chapman photo

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor
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“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

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“I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you.”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

The Guardian interview (2002)

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“(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)”

Anne Tyler (1941) American novelist

Source: Vinegar Girl

Karen Marie Moning photo
Jeannette Walls photo
Jack Kerouac photo
Jim Morrison photo
Mindy Kaling photo
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Ryū Murakami photo
E.E. Cummings photo
Francesca Lia Block photo
Karen Marie Moning photo
Emily Dickinson photo

“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
Variant: 288: I'm Nobody! Who are you?
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?

Cecelia Ahern photo

“Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Variant: Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. ow would you know happiness if you never experienced downs?
Source: P.S. I Love You

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”

Source: The Guns of Avalon

Homér photo

“My name is Nobody.”

IX. 366 (tr. Robert Fagles); Odysseus to Polyphemus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Variant: Nobody—that's my name.
Source: The Odyssey

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Rob Sheffield photo

“A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

Orson Scott Card photo
Stephen Chbosky photo
Cinda Williams Chima photo
Haruki Murakami photo

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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Zora Neale Hurston photo
Rebecca West photo

“The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)

Cornelia Funke photo

“Nobody loves only once.”

Source: Reckless

Georgette Heyer photo
Russell Hoban photo
Lev Grossman photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Augusten Burroughs photo
James Baldwin photo

“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.”

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)
Variant: Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
Source: Nobody Knows My Name

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Ray Bradbury photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
Alan Sillitoe photo
Stephen Chbosky photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Henry Kissinger photo
Adolf Hitler photo
Cecelia Ahern photo

“And nobody had told them that they were short on time.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Cassandra Clare photo
Woody Allen photo

“The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

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“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

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“A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Variant: One woman I was dating called and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

Alice Walker photo

“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.”

Source: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Norman Spinrad photo

“Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”

Source: Castle in the Air

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Chuck Palahniuk photo
Dorothy L. Sayers photo

“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer
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Charles Bukowski photo
Cinda Williams Chima photo

“Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Exiled Queen

Bill Cosby photo

“Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets?”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist