Nobody Knows Quotes - Page 6

• Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Team, Leader, Use

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• My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'

  Claude Shannon

  Names, Ideas, Two

  "Scientific American", Vol. 225, (p. 180), 1971.

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• Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

  Lillian Hellman

  Sorry, Hard Work, Deserving It

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• Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Stupid, Energy, Doe

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• The heart is something else. Nobody knows what's going to happen,' I said

  Richard Brautigan

  Heart, Said, Happens

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To say I live a cursed life is an understatement. I have to get up every day and work with people who are not as successful as me nor will they ever be as successful as me. Nobody knows the struggles I go through.

  Zach Braff

  Struggle, Successful, People

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• Canadian is both harder and easier to explain. Nobody knows what it is even supposed to be, let far-out-alone what it actually is.

  Judith Merril

  Easier, Harder, Supposed To Be

  Tesseract Books, Judith Merril (1988). “Tesseracts”

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• Because love is dangerous, insecure.... And nobody knows where love will lead. It is just like a cloud - moving with no destination. Love is a hidden cloud, whereabouts unknown. Nobody knows where it is at any moment of time. Unpredictable - no astrologer can predict anything about love. About marriage? - astrologers are very, very helpful; they can predict.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Moving, Insecure

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• As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

  Isabel Paterson

  Law, Freak, Stand Alone

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they are great films. They are not promoted and that's really sad.

  Kate del Castillo

  Film, Really Sad, Terrible

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

  Jack Kerouac

  Rags, Growing, Forlorn

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.366, Penguin

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• Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds left... until this ride is over..." then what was the point of riding it in the first place? Nobody knows why we're alive. We don't have the time to bother.

  Takehiko Inoue

  Thinking, Riding, Alive

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• Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

  Ryan Adams

  Lasts, Famous Last Words, Stills

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• When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Brother, Police, Found

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• There's another piece of legislation in Russia that would make "allowing for nontraditional sexual relations" a cause for removing parental rights, and remove children from same-sex families altogether. It was withdrawn, most likely temporarily, under international pressure. What "allowing for nontraditional sexual relations" means, nobody knows. And this is part of the point of all of these laws. They have to be vague to not just enable but require selective enforcement.

  Masha Gessen

  Children, Mean, Relation

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• Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

  Cecelia Ahern

  Wise, Secret, Age

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

  Neal Shusterman

  Law, Educated, Knows

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains

  Kami Garcia

  Men, Giving, Care

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• So - here I am in the dark alone, There's nobody here to see; I think to myself, I play to myself, And nobody knows what I say to myself; Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.

  A. A. Milne

  Dark, Thinking, Here I Am

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• I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Believe, Mean

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• i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

  e. e. cummings

  Beautiful, Sweet, Fate

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Paper, Knows

  "The YellowWallpaper" (1892)

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• I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

  Virginia Madsen

  Writing, Play, Evil

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Jan 11, 2016

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• I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.

  Patton Oswalt

  Grateful, Winning, Years

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, Information, Way

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