Top 100 A Nobody Quotes
#1. I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God.
Robert H. Schuller
#2. He had the freedom of a nobody, with a blank future unrolling before him on which anything at all might be written.
Margaret Atwood
#3. If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
Paulo Coelho
#4. I asked her if I was black or white. She replied You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
James McBride
#5. The scientists do not get enough help, enough encouragement, to change their field from time to time because the pressure is too high or is to perform something. And once you start in a new field, you are a nobody to start with, you see.
Heinrich Rohrer
#7. Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.
Francine Pascal
#8. You are a nobody till you stop doing the same stupid things everybody else is doing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. Somebody is born.
Somebody goes to school.
Somebody learns to conform.
Somebody types a CV.
Somebody gets a job.
Somebody follows orders.
Somebody gets a golden watch.
And then, eventually,
Somebody dies.
And, a Nobody is buried.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#11. You can't disturb a nobody with evidence he's a nobody. A nobody is not disturbed by anything significant.
Padgett Powell
#12. In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.
Ruud Gullit
#13. What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.
Vincent Van Gogh
#14. Shit happens to the best of us, Cara," Damian says suddenly. "It's how you deal with it that counts. You've gotta fight for what you want, otherwise this life will chew you the fuck up and spit you right out. You're either a fighter or a nobody,
Michelle Horst
#15. I'm a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.
Adrian Rogers
#16. You know where this Yaqui girl is going to be in a few years if she doesn't change? She'll still be there, same as always in her old neighborhood
a nobody with nothing. And guess what? That's her worst fear.
Meg Medina
#17. God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.
Mary Kay Ash
#18. BETTER PRETEND TO BE A NOBODY AND BE SOMEBODY THAN TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEBODY AND ARE A NOBODY, BECAUSE MY LORD WAS A SOMEBODY, BUT LIVED LIKE A NOBODY AS A RESULT EXALTED AS THE GREATEST EVER LIVED.
James C. Uwandu
#19. In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"
Aphex Twin
#20. No One dies a nobody. You will always be a somebody for someone.
Trishna Damodar
#21. And this fine young prince had fallen in love with a Nobody from Nowhere -- as princes sometimes do, though not as often as romantic tradition would have you believe.
Kate Saunders
#22. In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody.
Dean Martin
#23. If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.
Clifford Stoll
#24. It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.
Jessica Cutler
#25. Africa was always waiting, a substrate for the white man's will, a backdrop for his activities...I was primed to see a white man, a nobody in his own country, who thought, as usual, that the salvation of Africa was up to him.
Teju Cole
#26. God didn't have time to create a nobody ...
Mary Kay Ash
#27. She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
Jeanette Winterson
#28. Just tell em I'm a nobody that's tryin to tell everybody 'bout Somebody that can save anybody.
Denver Moore
#29. The person you think is useless and a nobody today, might be the very person you will need tomorrow. Never look down on anyone.
Bien Sufficient
#30. I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
Ned Vizzini
#31. I'm a Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? There's a pair of us- don't tell!
Emily Dickinson
#32. You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody
Les Giblin
#33. I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
Ned Vizzini
#34. If you spent your life trying to be LIKE EVERYBODY, you will only succeed at BECOMING A NOBODY. (Rabbi Celso Cukierkorn Bestselling Author and Speaker)
Celso Cukierkorn
#35. We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.
Marvin J. Ashton
#37. I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.
Marilyn Monroe
#38. A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
John Burroughs
#39. A Yes-man is always a somebody. Only a No-man is a nobody.
Jarod Kintz
#40. I don't think you ever realized how unimportant high school and your role in it really was. High school is what happens before your life begins. You can be the top dog in that big brown building and a nobody outside it.
Lindy Zart
#41. John Nobody, a Nobody Inc. spokesperson, declined to comment. Or prove his existence or the existence of the company he may or may not represent.
Jarod Kintz
#42. She's one of these beautiful women who's just a nobody and a nothing, and when they make it big, they always fall apart. Money can't do anything for them. Fame only makes things worse.
Anne Rampling
#43. There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!
Abbie Hoffman
#44. Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you
Stephen Vizinczey
#45. No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.
Charles R. Swindoll
#46. If I was a nobody you wouldn't be so eager to see me dead. Just like these people you know that I am devoted to the truth. That is why you want to eliminate me. - Magda Searus
Terry Goodkind
#47. One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
Patrick Fugit
#48. Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.
Thomas Aquinas
#49. All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.
Marcia Gay Harden
#50. Valentine's Day is celebrated a little differently here in L.A. Nobody eats chocolate because of the calories, so people give each other tofu-shaped boxes filled with bean curd. Then they fantasize about what their Pilates instructor would be like if he was straight.
Craig Ferguson
#51. Ignorance strips a man of his rights and privileges, and reduces him to a 'nobody'.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#52. I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away with that deflection. I think it may have helped to introduce Brian as a believable gay man. Maybe not. However it played, it's been out of my hands for a long time.
Gale Harold
#53. I am a nobody trying to be a somebody by not riding or pulling down anybody.
Amit Abraham
#54. He was a sleaze, a nobody, a former graduate student of English studies.
Jonathan Franzen
#55. To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can't remember a nobody's name, that's why they're called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable.
Philip Schultz
#56. Snow White: You're still lost in the forest, but lonely, lost girls like us can be rescued. You are standing on the edge of greatness.
Virginia: I'm not. I'm useless. I'm a nobody.
Snow White: You will one day be like me, a great advisor to other lost girls. Now stand up.
Kathryn Wesley
#57. In the past seven years, I've gone from being a nobody with no job and no insurance to someone who is seen as a leader and a role model.
Anonymous
#58. If I'm a nobody, why do you bother telling me that?
Stephan Attia
#59. I really liked it best when I was a nobody.
Eric Heiden
#61. He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.
Patrick Suskind
#62. If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller)
Henry Miller
#63. It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
Jules Renard
#64. All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.
Marshall McLuhan
#66. An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.
L.M. Montgomery
#68. I don't tend to get cast in the theatre much. People assume I come with all this baggage. But they do cast me in films. In films, I'm a nobody.
Simon McBurney
#69. The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.
Scott Bakula
#70. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass.
Brendan Fraser
#71. If you're not a king you can wear a hat to be distinguished. And if you're not a king and you don't wear a hat you end up being a nobody.
Juan Pablo Villalobos
#72. Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
Dwight L. Moody
#73. I am a nobody until I make somebody worthy for everybody.
Amit Abraham
#74. I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.
Mike Birbiglia
#75. The next time you hear a person say,
'I don't have time' or 'I have no time,'
Take a moment to be with them.
Without time, that somebody becomes a nobody.
J.R. Rim
#76. It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.
Don Cheadle
#77. I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.
Kristen Bell
#78. What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man ... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of such a nobody.
Vincent Van Gogh
#79. Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.
Mickey Rourke
#80. One way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.
Napoleon Hill
#81. I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.
Jules Renard
#82. Family being the most important thing in the world. The most important. Why, it's your family that tells you who you are. Without a family, you're a nobody.
Lauren Groff
#83. Moses spent forty years in the king's palace thinking that he was somebody; then he lived forty years in the wilderness finding out that without GOD he was a nobody; finally he spent forty more years discovering how a nobody with GOD can be a somebody.
Dwight L. Moody
#84. God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.
Mary Kay Ash
#85. Once you realise you're never going to be a somebody, you have to kid yourself that being a nobody can still be interesting.
Ian Pattison
#86. I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.
Gloria Swanson
#89. America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.
Patrick Bedard
#90. History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
Bashar Al-Assad
#91. Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.
G. Willow Wilson
#92. I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.
Hilarie Burton
#93. The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood
#94. Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers ... but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
Erica Jong
#95. We knocked lightly on the door. A voice asked who we might be, for nobody will ever open in Italy until identity is declared. Security, even in the remotest villages, is at New York standards.
Tim Parks
#96. It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.
Virginia Woolf
#97. There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could afford it ... expect for my uncle George, who was a second father to me, and had every film in the world, and every book.
William Monahan
#98. There is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody
Zadie Smith
#99. Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
Shimon Peres
#100. But I was in this bowling league with a good number of friends who came from across the line. We got the phone call that the border had been closed, and that absolutely nobody was being allowed to cross
not parents, not children, not anybody. Who knew what disguise the assassin had used.
Alberto Alvaro Rios
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