A Quotes
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“Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.”
“Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.”
“Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.”
“Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.”
“Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.”
“Anybody doing something brings something to it.”
“Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.”
“Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael. “Ya think? In general, or in particular?” “Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.” There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange.”
Source: Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires
“Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?”
Source: The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)
“Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.”
“Anybody from any country and religion who wants to love God is worthy of great respect.”
Source: The Religion of God (Divine Love): Untold Mysteries and Secrets of God
“Anybody from my soil is my responsibility.”
“Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.”
“Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.”
“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff.”
“Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government”
“Anybody have any money?”
Frank checked his pockets. “Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian.”
Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what he found. “Three quarters, two dimes, a rubber band and—score! A piece of celery.”
He started munching on the celery, eyeing the change and the rubber band like they might be next.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“Anybody have the right to defend himself by carrying a gun but nobody have the right to kill others because he is carrying a gun”
“Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught! I understand in the case of Mr. Swaggart, that he claims that it was not multiple encounters with many prostitutes - apparently, only one sweet young thing. And he did tell Cal Thomas of the Moral Majority that the sex act itself was not fully consumated. However he did admit to doing something por-no-graphic with the girl. Let's use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen.”
“Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.”
“Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.”
“Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.”
“Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.”
“Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.”
“Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.”
“Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.”
“Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.”
“Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.”
“Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.”
“Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.”
“Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.”
Source: CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series
“Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.”
“Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.”
“Anybody knows, you can conjure anything by the dark of the moon”
“Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.”
Source: Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959
“Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.”
“Anybody, no matter who they were, could come right off the boat and get more rights and respect than amerikan-born Blacks.”
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.”
“Anybody or anything can become enlightened because enlightenment is the very nature of existence itself.”
“Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.”
Source: The last lecture
“Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.”
“Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.”
“Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.”
“Anybody see 'Cop Land'? I went to go see it, but I got stoned in the parking lot. And then on the way in, I read the marquee, and I got paranoid and went home.”
“Anybody should punch anybody in the face with beauty, at any time, without getting punched back by a penis.”
“Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.”
“Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.”