N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nobody knew who I was.”
“Nobody know you the way you know yourself so let anyone tell you what you can, and can not do!”
“Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don't have any ID.”
“Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.”
“Nobody knows all the answers to the mysteries of the universe. For your own sake, be wary of anyone who claims they do.”
“Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.”
“Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.”
“NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, SO DO WHAT YOU WANT.”
Source: Eat a Peach
“Nobody knows anything when they are in their midtwenties.”
Source: The Good Luck of Right Now
“Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.”
“Nobody knows anything.”
Source: The big picture: Who killed Hollywood? and other essays
“Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way.”
“Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.”
Source: Adventures in the Screen Trade
“Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week.”
“NOBODY knows better than you what's right for you. NOBODY. Let me say what I really mean: NOBODY. Advice? Get some. Oracles? Consult them. Friends? Worship them. Actual gurus? Honour them. Final say? YOU. All you. No matter what. No matter how psychic that psychic is, or how rich the business consultant is, or how magical the healer, or bendy the yoga instructor. All that experts offer you is data for you to take into consideration. YOU are the centrifugal force that must filter, interpret, and give meaning to that data.”
Source: White Hot Truth: Clarity for Keeping It Real on Your Spiritual Path - from One Seeker to Another
“Nobody knows but you what it is that’s sacred to you as far as what you want to manifest in your life. You need to do it by your own chosen standards. Your life does not need to look like anybody else’s life. It’s a commitment that you’re making to a magnificent life measured by your own chosen standards.”
“Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.”
“Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.”
“Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.”
“Nobody knows everything, yet most people hate being exposed to the idea that they don't have all the answers.”
“Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.”
Source: Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
“Nobody knows exactly how they're going to behave until they're faced with certain challenges. It's one of the great things in life–putting yourself in positions to meet new challenges and not being afraid to do so. It's what keeps life interesting and ultimately makes you the best person you can be.”
Source: Lipstick Jungle
“Nobody knows exactly what he's capable of until he tries.”
“Nobody knows exactly what it takes to succeed. It takes whatever it takes depending on who it's taking from.”
“Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold.
(on Michael Owen)”
“Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.”
“Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.”
“Nobody knows how old Petra is, but it was a thriving city when Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, and for a full five thousand years it has had but that one entrance, through a gorge that narrows finally until only one loaded camel at a time can pass. Army after army down the centuries have tried to storm the place, and failed, so that even the invincible Alexander and the Romans had to fall back on the arts of friendship to obtain the key. We, the last invaders, came as friends, if only Grim could persuade the tyrant to believe it.
The sun rose over the city just as we reached the narrowest part of the gut, Grim leading, and its first rays showed that we were using the bed of a watercourse for a road. Exactly in front of us, glimpsed through a twelve-foot gap between cliffs six hundred feet high, was a sight worth going twice that distance, running twice that risk, to see—a rose-red temple front, carved out of the solid valley wall and glistening in the opalescent hues of morning.
Not even Burkhardt, who was the first civilized man to see the place in a thousand years, described that temple properly; because you can’t. It is huge—majestic—silent—empty—aglow with all the prism colors in the morning sun. And it seems to think.”
Source: The Lion of Petra
“Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.”
“Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.”
“Nobody knows I'm different. Or they may know, but they don't know how different and they don't know what this thing is that's driving me because I can't... this is... these are charges ... which I understand having got two children of my own and having had these mad thoughts myself that you know, I've got to get out there and do something. I don't know what it is, but it's got to be interesting.”
“Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.”
“Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.”
“Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.”
“Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Nobody knows Los Angeles until they’ve been entranced by it, corrupted by it, cast out from it, and returned to it on their knees begging it to save them, and Richie knew Los Angeles. He knew it better than anyone. This time he would tame the beast and make it his own—this time he would win.”
Source: Porno Valley
“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.”
“Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.”
“Nobody knows that they're going to be Champions - you have to work to get there.”
“Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.”
“Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.”
“Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.”
“Nobody knows the truffles I've seen.”
Source: Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen
“Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.”
“Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.”
“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.”
Source: Addresses on International Subjects
“Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.”
Source: Triple Threat: Exploits of Three Famous Detectives: Hercule Poirot, Harley Quin and Tuppence
“Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.”
“Nobody knows what death is,
nor whether to man
it is perchance the greatest of blessings,
yet people fear it as if they surely knew
it to be the worse of evils.”