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Quotes About Nobody

Trading may have princes, but nobody stays a king" and "The people you meet on the way up, you will meet again on the way down.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule? asked Scicpio. And what for do you look so black at me? No matter, darky, said the carpenter. Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself?
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
it's like an old movie-- 35 years old-- that nobody ever saw or understood but me and even though the critics would dub it ordinary i like it very much.
~ Charles Bukowski
We are all trapped by a singular fate, nobody ever finds the one, the city dumps fill, the junkyards fill, the madhouses fill, the hospitals fill, the graveyards fill, nothing else fills
~ Charles Bukowski
To Jacky and Harriet he explained, "Ghosts from upriver get snagged here, God knows why, like leaves caught by a drain, and when a whole lot of 'em clump up, they make a sort of man, something very like a man, good enough to talk and naturally good at handling ghosts. It's never what you'd call a particular person—it's Nobody, in that way. And it lives on the smell of fresh blood, like they say jungle plants live on just smells in the air.
~ Tim Powers
To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
~ George Washington
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
~ Baltasar Gracian
If working around the King had taught her anything, it was that no matter what class you were in, tragedy didn't discriminate, justice could always be served, and nobody got out of this life alive.
~ J.R. Ward
Nobody else is going to draw the attention that the Charlo twins will.
~ Jermall Charlo
You criminalize what normal people want, and you make everybody a criminal. And when everybody's a criminal, nobody's a criminal.
~ Nelson DeMille
I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.
~ Kristen Bell
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is.This is what makes America what it is.
~ Gertrude Stein
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
~ Bernard Shaw
I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.
~ James Frey
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so crass. They didn't get it. Those books don't understand. Nobody understands.
~ Phil Elverum
Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.
~ John Ratzenberger
But nobody had ever gone over the top shouting 'A Higher Standard of Living!' or 'Hot Showers and Electric Razors!
~ Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
But he's a missing person nobody's going to miss much.
~ Graham McNamee
On Facebook, I want to change my name to Nobody so when someone posts something really stupid, I can like their post and it will say... Nobody likes this.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns
~ James Joyce
Nobody ever brought up the hairpiece, and Salenca thought it was the perfect crime.
~ Tim Dorsey
Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'
~ Michael Franti
When people say 'I quote' and pause, they come across as scary-level intellectuals. Let's face it, nobody wants to mess with the 'I quote' types.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Of course, in Delhi nobody gives a damn about such small fights. Until blood is spilled, people remain cool and sip their lattes.
~ Chetan Bhagat