Everybody Quotes

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

When I started in this business, everybody said the Democrats were the better communicators because they sounded like social workers, and Republicans were awful because they sounded like morticians. In some cases. they actually dressed like morticians.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.

It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Everybody has fights with their sister.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.