Top 38 Quotes About Nobodies
#1. The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go.
Tony Visconti
#2. I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies; I'll call the unloved and make them beloved. In the place where they yelled out, 'You're nobody!' they're calling you 'God's living children.
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. A comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
Dan Simmons
#4. What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.
Leigh Bardugo
#5. Genealogy: research by nobodies tracing their descent from a line of nobodies.
Stephen Gard
#6. The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
Eric Hoffer
#8. 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
#9. Sampson wanted to be "a seven-foot-four guard." He was too pretty to be a soldier. Against the profoundly overmatched Chaminade, he took just nine shots and let his unbeatable team lose to a bunch of beach bum nobodies. He was the greatest, but he wasn't that great.
Chuck Klosterman
#11. If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.
Lawrence Fagg
#12. It made me think all the nowheres and even the nobodies of the world might stand a chance after all
Linda Kage
#13. If we're being honest, we don't call ourselves royalty. If we're being honest, we call ourselves timid, confused, and insecure. All our self-loathing and self-promoting is a thin veil covering over our frightening conviction that we are nobodies.
Tony Reinke
#14. Their mothers were nobodies," Marian (Max's mom) said. "Donor eggs. Lab workers, techs, anyone we found. That was the point- that we could create a superrace out of anything. Out of trash."
Well, you're right there," I said. "Because we are a superrace. And I did come from trash.
James Patterson
#15. You build desires, and as a result, rather than just being who and what you are, you create one, ten, hundreds of false egos, which in turn create more desires until there's no sense of self left anywhere in the jam-packed auditorium of schizophrenic nobodies.
Trent Zelazny
#16. What if two negatives make an affirmative ... does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#17. The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
Hannah Arendt
#18. The Great Leveller, Dogman whispered to himself, since he was in a thoughtful frame of mind. That's what the hillmen call him. Death, that is. He levels all differences. Named Men and nobodies, south or north. He catches everyone in the end, and he treats each man the same.
Joe Abercrombie
#19. If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
Marilyn Monroe
#20. Maccarinelli thinks he can use me to make a name for himself, but that is not going to happen. He has made his fame by fighting nobodies. I've fought all the way to the top against top contenders.
David Haye
#21. I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
Nathan Fillion
#22. Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.
Rajneesh
#23. Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.
Guy Kawasaki
#24. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen,
Leigh Bardugo
#25. God is looking for nobodies who will become somebodies in his hands.
Jack Wyrtzen
#26. Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
Philip Yancey
#27. I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#28. 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
#29. And the worst possible thing we could know - worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms - is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.
Thomas Ligotti
#30. The shadows of woman and child lie heavily athwart our own fears and nightmares and the two become translated, in the empty, indifferent place, from the local to the monumental. They are nobodies and thus become everybody.
Simon Schama
#31. The man who does that which avails in reforms or other good works always has clubs thrown at him. The nobodies are passed over in Silence, or with good natured unmeaning compliments after they leave high places.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#32. When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.
Pierre Trudeau
#33. Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
Jim Elliot
#34. Without Jesus they were the great priests of the temple; with Jesus suddenly they were nobodies. In the presence of Jesus there was God himself and all the priests felt their glory had been taken away.
Rajneesh
#35. God did not create us to be nobodies, but to be somebodies in communion with him through participation in Jesus' glorious story.
Paul Louis Metzger
#36. Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the world
children, families, friends.
Douglas Coupland
#37. The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.
Gerry Harvey
#38. Tatues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.
Chuck Palahniuk
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