Top 100 No One Ever Quotes
#1. No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.
Romain Rolland
#2. No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?
Red Grange
#3. The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.
Andrzej Stasiuk
#4. People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.
Stephen Jay Gould
#5. No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
Aminatta Forna
#6. What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.
Alice Hoffman
#7. No prophet or apostle who ever lived equaled the power of these individuals in this great army of the Lord in these last days. No one ever had it; not even Elijah or Peter or Paul or anyone else enjoyed the power that is going to rest upon this great army.
Paul Cain
#8. And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chasing tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part.. no-one ever said it would be so hard, I'm going back to the start
Coldplay
#9. It's no small feat, finishing a journey," I tell her. "But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home.
Jodi Picoult
#10. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. - Vincent Van Gogh
Laurie A. Helgoe
#11. I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#12. No one ever recognises me. Everyone says, 'You don't look like your pictures.'
Alison Goldfrapp
#13. We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway,
#14. No one ever says you're being judgmental if you think something is right or good or healthy. Only the opposite - only if you don't like it and only if they do like it.
J.D. Robb
#15. No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong
#16. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul A.M. Dirac
#17. No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt
#19. Kristian, if you don't love me now, no one ever will. This is it; you are the only person that knows I'm here. If you move on, there is no one else." She sounds defeated.
"I know," I say softly. And that's exactly why I won't, I can't, move on.
Dannielle Wicks
#20. There are times when a girl needs sexy. That's the thing no one ever tells you. Sexy can be both a weapon and a wall of defense.
Kristen Callihan
#22. No one ever calls me Tyrannus. My mother insisted on it because it's a family name, but my father hates it.
Rainbow Rowell
#23. When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.
Kit Harington
#24. No one ever gave me an instruction manual on how to be an openly gay man.
Jameson Currier
#25. All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.
Mamie Gummer
#26. No one ever says, 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.
George Carlin
#27. You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#28. I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
Tennessee Williams
#31. Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don't you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?
Megan Shepherd
#32. The death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.
Brenda Ueland
#33. Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
John Knowles
#35. Lucy- "Wow, no one ever fights over me."
Justin- "My multiple personalities fight over you constantly. There is a war going on inside me."
Rue- "This is for the war going on outside.
Holly Black
#36. No one ever does anything but what he wants to do - 'enjoys' - within the possibilities open to him. If I change a tire, it's because I enjoy it more than being stranded.
Robert A. Heinlein
#37. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
Winston Churchill
#38. Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality, looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.
Cambria Hebert
#39. No one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.
Shirley Maclaine
#40. By the end of it all I just assumed no one ever told the truth, and that was when I started lying too.
Jessica Knoll
#41. In fairy tales," her mother used to say, "no one ever says I love you. They give food and they kiss. That's what love is made of.
Jacqueline Sweet
#42. The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.
Christopher Isherwood
#43. For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.
Tyler Cowen
#44. No one ever thinks they're awful, even people who really actually are. It's some sort of survival mechanism.
Emily St. John Mandel
#45. You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.
Nina Malkin
#46. I've taken over the guest room wardrobe too- plus, I've arranged all my shoes on the bookshelves on the landing. (I put the books in boxes. No one ever read them. anyway.)
Sophie Kinsella
#47. Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#48. No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.
F.K. Preston
#49. Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.
Leonard Cohen
#50. There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.
Nik Wallenda
#51. All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous.
David Levithan
#52. We'll never survive!"
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.
William Goldman
#54. When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it beforewhy do we think we can succeed now?
Joanna Russ
#55. In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking for them.
Brian Helgeland
#56. I have all these opinions about the dancers but they should be kept to myself. No one consults me. I keep asking to be invited to the dance tryouts but no one ever allows me there. I'll just say this: My general philosophy is that you can teach them to dance.
Daryl Morey
#57. Just remember, sometimes people will put you ahead of themselves. It does happen. (Leta)
Yeah, the whole world is just rainbows and puppies. Boy Scouts really do help old ladies cross the street without mugging them and no one ever ignores a trauma victim's screams. (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.
Stephen King
#59. Don't give your heart to him, Shay," Darby says softly. "Ford won't keep it safe. No one ever kept his heart safe growing up and he doesn't know how to treat anyone any better. It's not his fault he's not a good man, but it'll be your fault if you expect him to be one.
Bijou Hunter
#60. No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.
Mignon McLaughlin
#61. No," Roland said, "but it's a fair tale. Tell it to the end, please." Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?" "Yeah," Jake said.
Stephen King
#63. Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#64. Does the ending even matter? Shouldn't the middle be the happy part? It's the biggest chunk of our life, and yet no one ever asks if two people had a happy middle. They care too much about the ending.
R.S. Grey
#65. The more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.
Joe Abercrombie
#66. The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Rachel Gibson
#67. Oh, sweetheart, I am the worst male your precious gods could have chosen for you." The expression on his face turned deadly serious. He leaned his face forward and down to get eye level with her. "I will mate no one. Ever. (Darius)
Madison Thorne Grey
#68. Real heroes are like poor old Gaspode. No one ever notices them until afterward. That's the reality.
Terry Pratchett
#69. There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
#70. I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.
Steve Nash
#71. I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
Rachel Dratch
#73. No one gave a shit enough to see it through. No one ever offered me that, until you.
Kristen Ashley
#75. My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
Nick Denton
#76. People always snap and think they're Jesus. How come no one ever snaps and thinks they're Buddha?
Bill Hicks
#77. No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
Toni Morrison
#78. No one in Camden [Market] ever scoffed at me for looking too odd, but what I loved more was that no one ever scoffed at me for looking too normal, either.
Gabrielle Harbowy
#79. No one ever was the poorer for giving
Anne Frank
#80. No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.
Woody Allen
#81. No one ever does the last thing on their list.
Ariel Gore
#82. No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.
Patch Adams
#83. Ironically no one ever wants to hear what I have to say about anything. They usually argue with me to the point I want to put them through a wall. Hopefully you won't be so dense. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. I couldn't wait to meet his cherry-popping, cougar pimp landlady again. Said no one ever.
Linda Kage
#85. No one ever told me that it might be different. That it would be okay to be different.
Kelly Quindlen
#86. They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.
Neil Gaiman
#87. No one ever told me that loving someone would feel like you were giving up every last part of yourself, but that's how I feel, Addison.
From the second I saw you, I was done. I gave it all to you. Something about you called to me, and I have never regretted you, even as I questioned us.
Ella Frank
#88. No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.
Andy Rooney
#89. 28So husbands ought also to jlove their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
Anonymous
#90. What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?
Adi Alsaid
#91. An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
Shirley Maclaine
#92. If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
Neil Simon
#93. No one ever wins a war, and wars are never over.
Louisa Young
#94. No one ever asks what causes heterosexuality because no one is interested in stopping it
Vito Russo
#95. It's like looking for a needle that no one ever lost in a haystack that never was -
Charles Fort
#97. No one ever volunteers for change. Even when the situation they're in makes them unhappy, most people would rather stick with the unhappy they know, than take a chance on something unknown.
Alyson Noel
#98. TOBIAS: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don't seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.
T.S. Joyce
#99. No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. Mrs. Neville
Robert McCammon
#100. Don't tell me no one ever gave you a chance. You don't need anything given to you. You can make your own chances. But first you have to know what you're after, my dear.
Katherine Paterson
