Quotes about somebody
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“The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it's their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Children, Personality, Country

“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

Contributions of Jane Wagner

Failure

“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Laughter

“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Hate

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.”

Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project

Source: The Lazarus Project

Home

“If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.”

Richard Brautigan book In Watermelon Sugar

Source: In Watermelon Sugar

Question, Thinking, Time

“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”

Dashiell Hammett book The Maltese Falcon

Source: The Maltese Falcon

Life

“My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Kiss of Death

Life

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

Life, Imagination

“A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches”

Jeff Lindsay book Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

Time, Box

“This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Thinking, Country

“I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Light, Night

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.”

Philip Roth book American Pastoral

Source: American Pastoral

Drawing

“What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Religion

“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Variant: It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
Source: Nausea (1938)
Context: I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

Love, Thinking

“Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Books, Flying, Happiness

“I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you've triumphed.

Somebody once said it's what you dont see you're interested in, and this is true.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Women, Thinking, Clothes

“Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Hero of Ages

Faith

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.”

Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion (2006), p. 360

Life, God, Children, Parent

“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Love, World

“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Pain, People, Pleasure, Happiness

“When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

Love, Death, Sleep

“You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.'
'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

Baby

“Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Love

“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Life, Perfection

“Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Love

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

World

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

“Frosting

Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: The Panther and the Lash

Freedom, Learning

“Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.”

Spider Robinson book Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

Source: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

Guy, Madness

“But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

“Now, for the first time, he's seeing that there really is a way out of this, and it's all so simple. You don't have to run away. You just meet somebody special and step sideways into a parallel universe.”

Irvine Welsh book Skagboys

Source: Skagboys

Way, Universe, Time

“The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses (1988)

World

“I want to say yes, but I don't want to be with a boy whose heart belongs to somebody else. Just once, I want to be somebody else's first choice”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Boy, Heart

“Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it’s all gone, the whole world falls apart.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

World

“… sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).”

Cara Lockwood (1973) American writer

Source: I Do -- But I Don't

Way

“Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.”

Zadie Smith (1975) British writer

Fate

“My heart is sair-I dare na tell,
My heart is sair for Somebody.”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

Heart

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores”

Machado de Assis (1839–1908) Brazilian writer

Source: The Devil's Church and Other Stories

Music, Star, Waiting

“I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People are interested in their own sexuality and they've always reflected it in their art. End of story.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

People, Art

“Any instructions?” Carpenter said.
“Yeah,” Shane said. “Shoot anybody who looks at Agnes funny. And anybody else you don’t like. I’m getting tired of this shi*.”
“Somebody needs a hug,” Carpenter said.
“Humor,” Shane said. “Har.”

Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer

Source: Agnes and the Hitman

“As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.”

David Eddings book Castle of Wizardry

Source: Castle of Wizardry

Love

“Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Game

“Our chief want in life, is somebody who shall make us do what we can.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Considerations by the Way
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

Life

“Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Love, Personality

“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Variant: No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Source: Invisible Monsters

Love, Thinking

“Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good—only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 23.

“There's a somebody I'm longing to see,
I hope that he, turns out to be,
someone to watch over me.”

Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) American lyricist

Hope

“When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"”

Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) American journalist

"Purely Personal Prejudices" http://books.google.com/books?id=DLcEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22When+I+hear+somebody+sigh+that+Life+is+hard+I+am+always+tempted+to+ask+Compared+to+what%22&pg=PA241#v=onepage <br class="br">Strictly Personal (1953)

Inspirational, Business, Life, Funny

“Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

World, Fools

“She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Thinking, Help

“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot
Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.”

Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz

Variant: But I warn you, I am only really myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
Source: Save Me the Waltz

Imagination