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Somebody Quotes (page 49)

Dashiell Hammett quote: "He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him..."
He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works. Dashiell Hammett
Caroline B. Cooney quote: "Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for..."
Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you. Caroline B. Cooney
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie quote: "The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying..."
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it. Salman Rushdie
Anne Lamott quote: "since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick..."
...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind. Anne Lamott
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else. Gwendolyn Brooks
If indeed it's a race. Then the chicks do the most. It isn't a brag. Or an estrogen boast. It's the women who've led me. With big open hearts. If not for their love. I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers. I speak of them ALLIt's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking. That's easy to tease. I dare a great man. To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out. My rallying cry. To women all over. I hold you up high. And though there are others. Who'll... Jamie Lee Curtis
I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he sees me whip out a bird in one stroke. Pa's gonna be mad when he sees me do that. He don't like no fancy stuff like that. He don't even like word writin'. Kinda scare 'im, I guess. Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im. John Steinbeck
John Keats quote: "Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little..."
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. John Keats
You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing. Roger Kahn
The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life. Sue Monk Kidd
If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too. Kurt Vonnegut
For her first summer vacation, my sister went to California with a couple of friends on a package tour put together by her agency. One of the members of the tour group was a computer engineer a year her senior, and she started dating him when they came back to Japan. This kind of thing happens all the time, but it's not for me. First of all, I hate package tours, and the thought of getting serious about somebody you meet in a group like that makes me sick. Haruki Murakami
George S. Patton quote: "If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. George S. Patton
Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop? Ralph Ellison

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