Nobody Quotes - page 20

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them. (Junot Diaz)
During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs. View quote
Betty White
Operating systems are like underwear - nobody really wants to look at them. View quote
Bill Joy
I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him... to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good... View quote
Brian Jacques
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. View quote
Brandon Mull
We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices. View quote
Brandon Mull
A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. View quote
Vicki Myron
There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is---- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become. (Daniel H. Wilson)
Philosophers might care to ask themselves ... how often they are accomplices in increasing the audience for a second-rate article simply because their introductory course needs a simple-minded version of a bad idea that even freshmen can refute. Some of the most frequently reprinted articles in twentieth-century philosophy are famous precisely because nobody believes them; everybody can see what's wrong with them. ... The confirmation of this claim is left as an exercise for the reader. Among the memes that structure the infosphere and hence affect the transmission of other memes are the laws of libel. View quote
Daniel Dennett
But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better. View quote
David Levithan
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself. View quote
Alex Garland
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound. View quote
Dennis Rodman
Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes. View quote
Desi Arnaz
When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us. View quote
Desi Arnaz
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
Nobody gives you an education. If you want one, you have to take it. View quote
John Taylor Gatto
The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart? (Jonathan Carroll)
Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing. View quote
Jordan Peele
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” "No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion! View quote
Georgette Heyer
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. View quote
Elihu Root