E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.”
“Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.”
“Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.”
“Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.”
“Everybody knows that Black Sabbath started everything and almost every single thing that people are playing today has already been done by Black Sabbath. They wrote every single good riff... ever.”
“Everybody knows that conspiracy theories are false flags disseminated by agents of the Deep State. They are used to distract the masses from the real events that the Government is concealing from us daily.”
Source: Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being
“Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.”
“Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.”
Source: Literature and life, lects
“Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.”
“Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.”
“Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.”
“Everybody knows that I don’t want to let them get too close.”
Source: Harp and the Lyre: Exposed
“Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.”
“Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.”
“Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.”
“Everybody knows that I'm shorter, but it doesn't bother me at all.”
“Everybody knows that if people hang around for any length of time in an urban area without purpose they are likely to become “antisocial.”
Source: Feel Free: Essays
“Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.”
“Everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not.”
“Everybody knows that love goes away.”
“Everybody knows that only creeps put cameras in the bathroom.”
“Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.”
“Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.”
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.”
Source: The plague: translated from the French
“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate. That is why it is a complete misinterpretation to apply to the Church the words 'Wheresoever two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.' Christ did not say two hundred, or fifty, or ten. He said two or three.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.”
Source: Live for a Living
“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.”
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.”
“Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.”
Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.”
“Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.”
Source: Around the World in Eighty Days
“Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.”
“Everybody knows that. The missing step is always the next.”
“Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states within this organization, and to be frank, most of the people say only the five permanent members; this is the United Nations because they have the veto, they can do whatever they want and they can refuse whatever they want, and if there's a reform that is very much needed for this organization.”
“Everybody knows that the world lacks harmony, but the question is, what do they do about it - all they do is talk, talk and talk, without realizing. It's of no use to talk of harmony, you must live harmony - and to live harmony, you must abandon all barriers that keep you from it, including those that you hold most dear.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.”
“Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who covers police stations, covers county courts, brought up that way, has to have a degree of humanity that people who do not have that exposure don't have, and some people interpret that to be liberal. It's not a liberal, it's humanitarian and that's a vastly different thing.”
“Everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention. We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.”
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.”
“Everybody knows the competing identities of people who have kids.”
“Everybody knows the dice are loaded.”
“Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.”
Source: The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
“Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.”
“Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.”
“Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.”
“Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There's only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.”
“Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.”
“Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.”
“Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.”
“Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.”