N Quotes
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“No one reaches the top, without starting from the bottom.”
“No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.”
“No one reads to hear someone complain about the weather or how poorly their children are behaving. You have to give the readers a reason to turn the page. As a writer you have to invite someone to turn the page. And that is a skill you have to refine. That is why you have to read. You have to read to learn what it is that makes people turn the page.”
“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”
Source: One Human Minute
“No one realized that the pumps that delivered fuel to the emergency generators were electric.”
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
Source: With Love and Irony
“No one really believes in equality who's on top.”
Source: Manslaughter
“No one really belongs; at least not in this world. If there were a heaven, maybe there, but, even if there were, in it would be the souls who could bear witness to the undeniable cruelty of life, the poverty of the unwanted.”
Source: Unwanted
“No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.”
“No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.”
“No one really cares about other people when you get down to it—their own struggles are too close up.”
“No one really cares about the truth, only the illusion of truth.”
Source: Moments to Spare
“No one really contemplates death when making these life decisions, thought the Major. If they did, what different choices might they make?”
Source: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“No one really does know how to have fun here at all. It is all etiquette.”
“No one really expects me to do anything offensively. But I expect a little more.”
“No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.”
“No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.”
“No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.”
“No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.”
“No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.”
“No one really knows exactly what happens when we think, Therefore we can never really ever know anything...”
“No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?”
“No one really knows me. People think they know me.”
“No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.”
“No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
“No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.”
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.”
“No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.”
Source: The Eiger Sanction: A Novel
“No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words.”
“No one really needs me," he says, and there is no self-pity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him. They will mourn him, as will a handful of friends. But they will get on. Even Haymitch, with the help of a lot of white liquor, will get on. I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me. "I do," I say. "I need you.”
“No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.”
“No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.”
Source: My One Hundred Adventures
“No one really understands quantum mechanics.”
“No one really understands the grief or joy of another.”
“No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.”
“No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."”
Source: The Goddess Abides: A Novel
“No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.”
“No one really wants to be laughed at.”
“No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don’t. They want to know that, by following you, they are really following a higher principle, a transcendent truth. In spiritual followership, people want to know whether they are being led and influenced by God.”
“No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.”
“No one really wants you, they only want the idea of you.”
“No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.”
“No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.”
“No one recognizes their faults or their virtues when these are stated by another, any more than they recognize their own voices on a tape recorder. The world transmits back to us only the asymmetric form of our vices, as a mirror reflects back the asymmetric form of our faces.
There is a pact of pride in a couple's love, a pact of glory, which is at least as fundamental as sexual feelings. These latter peter out silently in the two bodies, but the pact can only be broken by the spoken word.
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of breakup and infidelity.”
Source: Cool memories
“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
“No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.”
“No one regrets having changed a lightbulb.”
“No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.”