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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

-Tallulah Bankhead
Attributed.

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!

- Samuel Beckett
  Waiting for Godot, act1.

   And this the burthen of his song, For ever used to be, I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

- Isaac Bickerstaffe
  Love in a Village, act1, sc.2.

From all I can learn, he'sgot no business, no income, and no connection worth speaking of; but then, I know nothingnobody tells me anything.

-John Galsworthy
  The Man of Property, pt.1, ch.1.

Their dress is very independent of fashion; as they observe,'What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?'And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent,'What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?'

- Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn ne  e Stevenson Gaskell
^3  Of the Cranford ladies. Cranford, ch.1.

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasyand Forever be Itself again. See Sandburg 713:6.

- Allen Ginsberg
  The Fall of  America,'Graffiti12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse  Airport'.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  The Marble Faun, ch.4.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

- Robert M Hutchins
  Farewell address to students at the University of Chicago.

Nemo secure pr×cipit, nisi qui bene obedire didicit. Nobody rulessafely, but he who has learned well how to obey.

- StThomas a' Kempis
c.1413  De Imitatione Christi, bk.1, ch.20, section 2.

Anyway,I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's aroundnobody big, I mean except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliffI mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.22.

Nobodycansayaword against Greek: it stamps a manat once as an educated gentleman.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Lady Britomart Undershaft to Stephen. Major Barbara, act1.

   Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone.

- Robin Skelton
A Devious Dictionary.

Nobody shoots Santa Claus.

- Al(fred) Emmanuel Smith
  Denouncing criticisms of the US aid programme.

What was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.

-Jan Christian Smuts
  Explaining the failure of the League of Nations to the Empire ParliamentaryAssociation, London, 25 Nov.

Disillusionment inliving isthefindingout nobodyagrees with you . . .Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they can't change.

- Gertrude Stein
  The Making of Americans, ch.5.

In the United Statesthere ismorespace wherenobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

- Gertrude Stein
  The Geographical History of America.

'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,'said the child†I'spect Igrow'd. Don't think nobody never made me.'

- Harriet (Elizabeth) ne  e Beecher Stowe
  UncleTom's Cabin, ch.20.The child isTopsy.

As for conceit, what man will do any good who is not conceited? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

- Anthony Trollope
  Orley Farm, ch.22.

A classic†something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  Speech on'The Disappearance of Literature'at the Nineteenth Century Club, 20 Nov. Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Speeches (1910).