Nobody Knows Quotes - Page 2

• Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Want, Opinion

  "Eastwood, DiCaprio talk about making 'J. Edgar'". Korea Herald Interview, www.koreaherald.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

  Carlos Castaneda

  Who I Am, Juan, Don Juan

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• If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

  K.J. Parker

  Light, House, Burning

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• Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Education, Teacher, Book

  Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”

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• I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Missing, Done

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing
  enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know
  you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mean, Knowing, Understanding

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.5415, Delphi Classics

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• Your mind has a way of putting limitations on your goals. When you persevere, you develop character. Nobody knows their ceiling.

  Paul Molitor

  Character, Goal, Mind

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• There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

  Kin Hubbard

  Two, Literature, Way

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• Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

  Alice Neel

  Art, Grateful, Standards

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• It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Physics, Knows

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.310, Random House

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• I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.

  Josh Fox

  Thinking, Worry, Answers

  "Living on 'Gasland:' Q&A with Documentary Filmmaker Josh Fox". Interview with Denise Chow, www.nbcnews.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.

  William T. Vollmann

  Jobs, Book, Angel

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• People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.

  Christina Aguilera

  Stars, Sleep, Thinking

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• That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.

  Joe

  Exciting, Great Things, Happens

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• Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

  Mary Norris

  Mistake, Language, Pleasure

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

  Duff Goldman

  What If, Answers, Becoming

  "Duff Goldman: The Ace of Cakes On A Sugar High" by Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives

  Alan Greenspan

  Lying, Moving, Ignorance

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• Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Years, Hygiene, Facts

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• If you were dealing with the accumulated repressions of only one lifetime, it would be different. But these are the repressions of numerous lives. Nobody knows how many times you have been born, and how many societies have crushed you. And each time a different society, and all these societies destroying you in different ways... this is why you carry so many inner contradictions.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Different, Would Be

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• Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Rumor, Literature, Legends

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• When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

  John Deacon

  Records, Easier, Ifs

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• I’ve come in and out of America for… well, I’ve lived here for 15 years. And I’ve played here for nearly 30 years. On and off. But I’ve always played to my fan base. And I can come and do two or three nights in New York or two or three nights in L.A., and all that. But when I go away, nobody knows I’ve been gone. You know, I don’t get reviewed or anything like that. So that’s why I’ve come back and done a longer time in a smaller place, in New York. It’s always the people who live here that get a chance to know me.

  Billy Connolly

  New York, Night, Years

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. March 7, 2007.

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• 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.

  Elihu Root

  Wall, Fighting, Men

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Would Be, Cry, Poor

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.89

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• 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.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reading, Passion, Temptation

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