Top 100 Everybody Knows Everybody Quotes
#1. Probably everybody be nice to you if they knew you were dying," he said.
"Everybody knows everybody is dying," I said. "That is why people are nice. You all die soon enough, so why not be nice to each other?
Mark Harris
#2. I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
Ringo Starr
#3. In our street everybody knows everybody's business. Someone will notice I rode up and walked down. Over fences and through keyholes, your business can pass like a Chinese whisper and beat you home, even if you're running.
Vikki Wakefield
#4. Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.
Michael Moriarty
#5. Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.
Bubba Smith
#6. Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.
Laurie Garrett
#7. Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.
Clinton Portis
#8. Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
Abbas Kiarostami
#9. Everybody knows a killer," I say, "even if they don't know they do.
Rin Chupeco
#10. I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips.
Jessicka
#11. I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.
Charles Bukowski
#13. Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is - is threatening their very families.
John Kasich
#14. You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
Hope Solo
#15. The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
P. J. O'Rourke
#16. there's a very well-known method for getting women, everybody knows it, it's not to say a word.
Yasmina Reza
#17. Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.
Nina Fedoroff
#18. Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.
Lizzy Caplan
#19. I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
Bill Cosby
#20. Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.
William Goldman
#21. They're sort of ancillary, friends. I mean, they're important - everybody knows that; the TV tells you so - but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
Ned Vizzini
#22. There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.
Christopher Lee
#23. Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
William Kingdon Clifford
#24. Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.
Matt Chandler
#25. Stony One replies, in a general way, 'All right. Everybody knows where to find Durdles, when he's wanted.' Which, if not strictly true, is approximately so, if taken to express that Durdles may always be found in a state of vagabondage somewhere.
Charles Dickens
#26. All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#27. The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
Bob Barr
#28. Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.
Jordan Peele
#29. I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .
Clive Barker
#30. If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
Shawn Wayans
#31. Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
William Feather
#32. Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can't shoot.
Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail.
Ilona Andrews
#33. Everybody knows what the dinner bell sounds like.
Bobby Adair
#34. I enjoyed coming home to Crown Heights. There was a certain order to life there. You know, Shabbos, spending time with your family, eating and being in 'shul.' Prayers at nighttime, prayers in the morning. Everyone knows everybody; you walk your kids everywhere.
Matisyahu
#35. Everybody knows how others should do their jobs - but they don't know how to do theirs.
Nabil N. Jamal
#36. Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.
Karl Hess
#37. Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.
Gabriel Luna
#38. Is easy
suffering is hungry, isn't it? Hungry, for anything, means suffering. Not hungry for something, means, not suffering. But everybody knows that.
Gregory David Roberts
#39. Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't
Wernher Von Braun
#40. Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.
Shaquille O'Neal
#41. I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.
Danny Brown
#42. There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
Joe Biden
#43. I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.
Kristen Wiig
#44. If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.
Fred DeLuca
#45. The boy everyone sees but nobody knows is with the girl who everybody knows but nobody sees. There's
Katie McGarry
#46. People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.
Frederick Lenz
#47. Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.
George Jones
#48. Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.
Edna Buchanan
#49. Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.
Miuccia Prada
#50. Demos are mock battles, never the real thing. Everybody knows where they're going to happen, and when and why. Nobody gets seriously hurt. Well, not unless they ask for it. (ch. 4)
John Le Carre
#51. Best way out," Elmo observed laconically, "would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords."
"Sounds a little extreme," Goblin opined. "But if you want to go first, I'm right behind you.
Glen Cook
#52. Everybody has different stories about where I came from. Nobody really knows.
Mitch Horowitz
#53. Everybody knows the rules, even though some break those rules.
George A. Romero
#54. I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
Young Jeezy
#55. As everybody knows, being raised Catholic with half a brain means becoming an atheist.
Maria Semple
#56. I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thinks it's so weirdly apparent and obvious.
Chelsea Leyland
#57. I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
Langston Hughes
#58. There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#59. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself
Leo Tolstoy
#60. Everybody in New York City knows there's way more cars than parking spaces. You see cars driving in New York all hours of the night. Its like musical chairs except everybody sat down around 1964.
Jerry Seinfeld
#61. Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.
Thomas Bangalter
#62. The weak overcomes the strong. The soft overcomes the hard. Everybody in the world knows this, still nobody makes use of it.
Laozi
#63. Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
Robert A. Heinlein
#64. Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.
Chen-Ning Yang
#65. What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian McKellen
#66. I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.
Samuel J. Palmisano
#67. I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
Kaniehtiio Horn
#68. Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
Arsene Wenger
#69. Nobody knew I was coming,' she replied, shocked.
The policeman shook his head and turn to the empty city centre square. 'Everybody knows.
Luke Gracias
#70. Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.
Alan Price
#71. When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#72. Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?
Emma Donoghue
#74. I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.
Roy Lichtenstein
#75. The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
Leonard Cohen
#76. Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that shit.
Matthew Quick
#77. Well, everybody's a drummer, I'll tell you that right now. Everybody knows what's right rhythmically for a song, so there were always suggestions flying my way.
Sam Fogarino
#78. I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.
William J. Clinton
#79. I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.
Danielle Steel
#80. Sorry to take your award, Faith ... Everybody knows that it's really not about the numbers and the chart positions and the sales and all that stuff, it's about relationships and my two best friends are at home ... I know you're as excited as I am ...
Martie Maguire
#81. As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it ... that makes it fun too.
Dan Marino
#82. Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
Lynn Margulis
#83. I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.
Sathya Sai Baba
#84. Someone has farted; no one knows just who, but this isn't like a normal adult place where everybody coolly pretends a fart didn't happen; here everybody has to make their little comment.
David Foster Wallace
#85. Everybody knows all the movements. General So and So should have done such and such. God knows we all try. We none of us lose battles on purpose. But now on this field what can we do that's undone?
Michael Shaara
#86. I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
Alan Rickman
#87. A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.
Shusaku Endo
#88. Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.
Larry Holmes
#89. I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.
Aimee Bender
#90. Everybody knows that I'm not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.
Diablo Cody
#91. A good writer sells out everybody he knows, sooner or later.
Alice McDermott
#92. In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don't know anybody and where nobody knows you, and you don't feel all the same that you're a stranger. And here you know everybody and everybody knows you, and you're a stranger ... and a lonely stranger.
Anton Chekhov
#93. Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.
Kit Bond
#94. She shrugged. Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so that you can get a good look at it.
Charles De Lint
#95. Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
Tim Berners-Lee
#96. Now everybody knows about this thing that's my secret. It was my thing, the music I turned to when I was alone and needed it. It's what helps me get through these times. It's just between me and music, and now it's been shared with the world.
Devendra Banhart
#97. They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important - everybody knows that; the TV tells you so - but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. All you have to do is talk to people, and this was back when I could talk to anybody.
Ned Vizzini
#98. A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all?
Charles Dickens
#99. Everybody who really wants to knows what's true. Most people just don't want to. It means listening from deep inside. Most people just don't want to. But the special people listen. You can hear what's true, inside. Listen.
David Foster Wallace
#100. Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.
Dennis Green
