Top 100 Not Everybody Quotes
#1. Not everybody wants to get out and see the world. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you just want to figure out how to fit yourself into the world you already know.
John Darnielle
#2. Because obsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else.
Joss Whedon
#3. I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.
Amanda Palmer
#4. Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.
William Zinsser
#6. Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#7. Most people can be made to look beautiful - someone can do your hair nice and put some make-up on - but being sexy is something inside and not everybody has it. I don't think I ever really had it, a lot of it is to do with confidence.
Lara Stone
#8. I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#9. If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
Aaron Schock
#11. When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
Joe Klein
#12. Well, not everybody who is pretty is necessarily beautiful. For the two to come together in a person is a rarity.
Jacob G. Rosenberg
#13. Don't worry about wanting to change; start worrying when you don't feel like changing anymore. And in the meantime, enjoy every version of yourself you ever meet, because not everybody who discovers their true identity likes what they find.
Antony John
#15. Growth is there for everybody, but it is not everybody who 'grows'! So many people grow to stop growing, but aging never stops for mankind until we come to the ebb of our days! Grow in something as you grow and leave something unique!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#16. In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.
Arsene Wenger
#17. Not everybody you disagree with is going to attack you for it.
Nancy Rue
#18. I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.
Maurice Sendak
#19. Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how. Some people think they will eventually wear diamonds instead of rhinestones Only by everlastingly keeping their noses to their ghrinestones
Ogden Nash
#20. Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.
Michael Steele
#21. The late Victorian Era brought in part-time education. Not everybody went to school, but they were supposed to have a decent level of schooling; they went part-time after 12.
Sarah Gavron
#22. It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
Sam Donaldson
#23. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
Charles Bukowski
#24. Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.
Thom Yorke
#25. Everyone always says, Does it bother you that Italians are always portrayed as Mafia characters? No, it doesn't bother me. First of all, not everybody in my family is in the Mafia. I have one uncle who's clean.
Dom Irrera
#26. Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#27. And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.
Francesco Clemente
#28. Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.
Robert Kirkman
#29. I think what a big part of 30 Seconds to Mars is, it's not only music, it's not only art, it's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. And not everybody will understand it, and that's ok, it's just for the people that do.
Jared Leto
#30. I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.
Amy Bloom
#31. Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.
Harry Connick Jr.
#32. Face it: not everybody can be like Tommy Lee.
Eric Grubbs
#33. I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#34. As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music ... and you know, you hope people respond to it. You always have to know, as well, that not everybody's gonna like it. And that's okay. It's not for everyone. It's just for the crusty nugs.
Pauly Shore
#35. I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.
Lorrie Moore
#36. I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my 'idea of them.
Anais Nin
#38. No matter who you are, not everybody is going to like what you do, so as long as you're armed with that knowledge, you'll be okay.
Mara Altman
#39. Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams
#40. Sooner or later you go through the process because when the gun goes off when a race starts not everybody goes across the finish line. Not everybody has the same motivations. It's not even about stamina. It's about relentless, dog-headed, stubborn determination to cross that finish line.
Dean Goodman
#41. Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'
Paul Coffey
#42. In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
Bill Hader
#43. Not everybody's the heroine, you know. Some of us just have bit parts in somebody else's
story.
Holly Schindler
#44. Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.
Johnny Isakson
#45. Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#46. Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.
Kenneth Anger
#47. I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.
Don Rickles
#48. To the eternal "Opinions are like assholes - everybody's got one," I just say, "Yeah, but not everybody's got ten thousand of them." It distresses me that the wit of this riposte so often fails to impress the asshole I'm talking to.
Robert Christgau
#49. Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.
Seth Lloyd
#50. Give him to me," said Anne. "Not everybody wants to French kiss the dog, Mal." The blond, heavily tattooed man grinned, handing the fur baby over. "But he's a great kisser. I taught him myself.
Kylie Scott
#51. Everybody is called to become a saint. Not everybody's gonna be canonized by the Church ... The only thing about being canonized is you're already dead so you don't even get to go to the party.
Lino Rulli
#52. All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it's a family decision every time I take a job.
Matt Damon
#53. Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
George Bernard Shaw
#54. Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.
Ariana Franklin
#55. Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.
Novak Djokovic
#56. There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it
Andy Warhol
#57. You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
Robert Nozick
#58. Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance, and I've always looked up to Mike Vick, and I always will.
Terrelle Pryor
#59. Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.
Wesley Snipes
#60. Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.
Joseph Stiglitz
#61. LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.
Warren Zevon
#62. Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what's more, you will be happy.
Steve Goodier
#63. Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
John Bonham
#64. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
Maxine
#65. My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer.
Maura Tierney
#66. This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.
Diana Vreeland
#67. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.
Joe Biden
#68. I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!
Suzanne Collins
#69. My new story collection won't please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they did, I'd have to move out and find another world to write about.
Ted Gargiulo
#70. Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
Os Guinness
#71. One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
Cormac McCarthy
#72. Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
Hunter S. Thompson
#73. Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.
Ruben Blades
#74. Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.
Dee Dee Myers
#75. Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.
Zadie Smith
#76. The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
Hugh MacLeod
#77. Certainly not everybody that is different is necessarily autistic, but there are a lot of undiagnosed people, and it's not necessarily something that needs to have attention to it, unless that person is feeling uncomfortable in the world or they need extra help or something.
Jasika Nicole
#78. Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.
John Dyer Baizley
#79. Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be home looking at how the math tutor was today. But it is what it is.
Renee James
#80. Yeah. It is. And if you're going to get out of bed and come here and talk to me, the bare minimum you can do is assume I'm not everybody. When I ask you, I actually want to know how you are.
Robin York
#81. Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.
Sri Chinmoy
#82. I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about that. Jesus figures of course you're sorry. Jesus, I thought, you blew it. Not everybody is sorry.
Caroline B. Cooney
#83. Being sexy is something inside, and not everybody has it.
Lara Stone
#84. You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.
Haruki Murakami
#85. When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.
Tim Tebow
#86. I am, like everybody else, hurt when the thing I've done is misunderstood or attacked but I've gotten old enough to realize that if you do something, not everybody's got to like it. And if everybody likes it, it's probably not that interesting.
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
#87. Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.
Bruce Wilkinson
#89. I suppose not everybody can bear to give up everything they have ever known, however bad their life is.
Frances Hardinge
#90. Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha?
She had shaken her head slowly.
Men and women who can't get over their past ... That's what ghosts are.
Stephen King
#91. Not everybody hates me. Only the people who've met me.
Emo Philips
#92. Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.
Neko Case
#93. I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.
Chellie Pingree
#94. Not everybody has that mentality and that's fine, but once Robert Redford leaves this earth - later rather than sooner - his legacy will go on.
John Boyega
#95. I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.
Michael Johnson
#96. In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
Baz Luhrmann
#97. Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word.
Paul Harvey
#98. Not everybody even gets to live with their own family because they have to go to L.A. or New York or wherever to work and find a job and leave their family back home. But every day, I get to work with my family - if I want to.
Rob Kardashian
#99. Not everybody is gonna like every track on my record ever!
SonReal
#100. A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
James Patterson
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