N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nobody notices your sorrow, your pain,
but everyone notices your mistakes.”
“Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.”
“Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.”
“Nobody objected to live in prison
if already felt comfortable living in it.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.”
Source: But Will it Sell?
“Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
“Nobody offered me a seat at their table, so I built my own universe. Now they are all pilgrims in my universe.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.”
“Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
“Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.”
“Nobody on their dying bed wished they had spent more time at the office or working but had time with the family and loved ones.”
Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process
“Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.”
“Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change.”
“Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“Nobody out-rednecks the great state of America.”
“Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.”
“Nobody overtakes you. Do not let your mind kill the fun.”
“Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.”
“Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.”
“Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.”
Source: Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life
“Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?”
“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
“Nobody owns me or my music.”
“Nobody paved the way for me, Jesus paved the way for me.”
“Nobody picks on a strong man.”
“Nobody planned the global capitalist system, nobody runs it, and nobody really comprehends it. This particularly offends intellectuals, for capitalism renders them redundant. It gets on perfectly well without them.”
“Nobody played poker with Mike Walsh--at least, not twice--but people fought to get aboard Constellation. Her command record since Mike took her was almost the equal of Enterprise's for danger, daring, and success not only snatched from the jaws of failure, but afterward used to beat failure over the head.”
Source: My Enemy, My Ally
“Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.”
“Nobody poor can possibly afford to live within the bounds of the law.”
Source: Molly House
“Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.”
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.”
“Nobody prepares you for death and grief—the feelings, the questions that arise inside you.”
“NOBODY pulls a knife on my little brother.”
Source: Icestorm
“Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.”
“Nobody pushes a society to well-health than a spinster on a social mission and a bachelor on a personal one.”
Source: Plotless
“Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.”
“Nobody puts Roach in the corner.”
“Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.”
“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
“Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.”
“Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.”
“Nobody reads poetry anymore
So who the hell are you
I see bent over this book?”
“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be allowed that an industrious quantity of contemporary American poetry is consciously written for a hermetic constituency; the bulk is written for the bourgeoisie, leaving a lean cut for labor. Only the hermetically aimed has a snowball's chance in hell of reaching its intended ears. One proceeds from this realization. A staggering figure of vibrant, intelligent people can and do live without poetry, especially without the poetry of their time. This figure includes the unemployed, the rank and file, the union brass, banker, scientist, lawyer, doctor, architect, pilot, and priest. It also includes most academics, most of the faculty of the humanities, most allegedly literary editors and most allegedly literary critics. They do so--go forward in their lives, toward their great reward, in an engulfing absence of poetry--without being perceived or perceiving themselves as hobbled or deficient in any significant way. It is nearly true, though I am often reminded of a Transtromer broadside I saw in a crummy office building in San Francisco:
We got dressed and showed the house
You live well the visitor said
The slum must be inside you.
If I wanted to understand a culture, my own for instance, and if I thought such an understanding were the basis for a lifelong inquiry, I would turn to poetry first. For it is my confirmed bias that the poets remain the most 'stunned by existence,' the most determined to redeem the world in words..”
Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
“Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.”
“Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
Source: Notebooks, 1942-1951
“Nobody really believes in equality anyway.”
“Nobody really belongs in purgatory. It’s not a destination point, it’s a waiting room.”
Source: In Limbo
“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are”