Listed below are quotes taken from the words of people that have no media directly connected to them.
Examples are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
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A–F
- Anonymous
- All Are Equal in Death
- All Deaths Final ("The Song of the Harp-Player")
- Ascended Glitch
- Author Filibuster
- Go and Sin No More
- Guns vs. Swords
- I Surrender, Suckers
- Opinion Myopia
- Perpetual Beta
- Rugby Laws
- Short Cuts Make Long Delays
- Super-Toughness
- There Are No Girls on the Internet
- True Art Is Incomprehensible
- James Acaster
- Cecil Adams
- Joseph Addison
- Makoto Aida
- Franklyn Ajaye
- Robert Alberti & Bruce Fisher
- William Allingham
- Marliece Andrada
- Archilochus
- Anastasia Ashley
- Dave Attell
- Boris Bajanov
- Rob Balder
- Maria Bamford
- Dave Barry
- Accent Relapse
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
- Comedy
- During the War
- Easily-Distracted Referee
- Eat That
- Epic Riff
- From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
- Good Lawyers, Good Clients
- Lassie
- Lite Crème
- Local Angle
- Old-Fashioned Fruit Stomping
- Pun
- Rattling Off Legal
- Stealth Cigarette Commercial
- Toad Licking
- The Trouble with Tickets
- Unflattering ID Photo
- Jean Baudrillard
- Howard Beckerman
- Barnard Bee
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Menachem Begin
- E. T. Bell
- Hilaire Belloc
- Robert Benchley
- Lloyd Bentsen
- Luciano Berio
- Yogi Berra
- Sara Bickley
- John Boehner
- Berke Breathed
- Andre Breton
- Surrealism (Les Champs magnétiques)
- David Brooks
- Gelett Burgess
- Abe Burrows
- Samuel Butler
- David Byrne
- John Byrom
- Richard Clarke Cabot
- Herb Caen
- Susan Calman
- George Carlin
- Black Comedy Rape
- Ernest Borgnine
- Erotic Eating
- Film at 11
- Fire-Breathing Weapon
- Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
- Have a Gay Old Time
- Midair Collision
- Naming Conventions
- National Football League
- Outside Ride
- Picky Eater
- Seven Dirty Words
- Snooty Sports
- Straight Edge
- Took a Level in Cynic
- Worst News Judgment Ever
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
- Edward Carpenter
- New Eden ("After Civilization")
- Adrian Carton de Wiart
- Mark Carwardine
- William Cassidy
- Cato the Elder
- Dave Chappelle
- Irving Chernev
- B.W. Clough
- Emma Coats
- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
- Butterfly of Death and Rebirth ("Sky Lotus")
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ("Sky Lotus")
- Andy Collins
- Merian C. Cooper
- Billy Corgan
- Mary Cresswell
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Georges Jacques Danton
- Frederik DeBoer
- Robert Delaunay
- Jules Destrée
- John Dewey
- Mike Ditka
- E.L. Doctorow
- K. Eric Drexler
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Jonny Ebert
- King Edward VIII
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Mitch Fatel
- Jules Feiffer
- Dave Fischer
- Scott Foglesong
- Shelby Foote
- Glen Foster
- Georges Franju
- Erich Fromm
- Paul Fussell
G–M
- Indira Gandhi
- John Gardner
- Bill Gates
- Jack Gilbert
- Joseph Goebbels
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Spalding Gray
- Eloise Greenfield
- Colin Greenland
- Horace Greeley
- Wayne Gretzky
- Rafael Guerra
- Jack Handey
- Ronald Haver
- T. Nielsen Hayden
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Heinrich Heine
- Leona Helmsley
- William Ernest Henley
- George Herbert
- Adam Hills
- Hippocrates
- The Japanese Emperor Hirohito
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Angel Hsu
- Elbert Hubbard
- Steve Hughes
- Melissa Jaffer
- Al Jean
- Connor Jessup
- Penn Jillette
- Lynn Johnston
- Amadeus Johnstone
- John Paul Jones
- Dave Justus
- Eric Kandel
- Johannes Kepler
- Thomas Kinkade
- Erwin Knoll
- Viktor Korchnoi
- R. A. Lafferty
- Future Imperfect ("And Read the Flesh Between the Lines")
- Gary Larson
- Mick LaSalle
- Lynn Lavner
- Fran Lebowitz
- Harper Lee
- Robert E. Lee
- James Lileks
- Sean Lock
- Vince Lombardi
- Mark LoPresti
- Richard Lovelace
- Letting Her Hair Down ("To Amarantha; That She Would Dishevell Her Hair")
- Loved I Not Honor More ("To Lucasta, Going to the Wars")
- Charles "Lucky" Luciano
- Fred MacAulay
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Cristina Macia
- Joel Madden
- Kathleen Madigan
- Maimonides
- Stepan O. Makarov
- Clyde Mandelin
- R. Wayne Maney
- Thomas Marshall
- Kyle Martin
- Andrew Marvell
- Intelligence Tropes ("The Garden")
- Tropes of Innocence ("The Garden")
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Donald McBurney
- John T. McCutcheon
- Margaret Mead
- Amy Mebberson
- Lorenzo di Medici
- Leon C. Megginson
- Leigh Mercer
- Andy Milonakis
- Alan Minter
- Lee Mishkin
- Wilson Mizner
- Ichiro Mizuki
- Seiji Mizushima
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Sarah Monette
- Dwight L. Moody
- Edward R. Murrow
N–S
- Ed Naha
- George Jean Nathan
- Diane Nelson
- Jennifer Yuh Nelson
- Marty Nemko
- Paul Nicklen
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Above Good and Evil
- God Is Dead
- The Hashshashin (On the Genealogy of Morals)
- He Who Fights Monsters
- Pain & Gain
- Stealth Parody
- Straw Nihilist
- Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Jimmy Page
- Carl Panzram
- Rob Paravonian
- Andy Parsons
- Andy Partridge
- Vincent Peranio
- Louise Perry
- Carla Pestana
- Alexis Petridis
- Gervase Phinn
- Justin Pierce
- Stephen Pile
- Pliny the Elder
- Plutarch
- Paula Poundstone
Presidents of the United States
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- John Quincy Adams
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Grover Cleveland
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- John F. Kennedy
- Lyndon Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Ronald Reagan
- George W. Bush
- David J. Prokopetz
- Pyrrhus
- Billy Queen
- Joe Queenan
- Dominic Riccitello
- Samuel Richardson
- Wendy Rieger
- Chris Rock
- Basement-Dweller
- Beggar with a Signboard
- Celebrity Voice Actor
- I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
- Internalized Categorism
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- The Low End Theory
- The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
- Older Than They Look
- Only Bad Guys Call Their Lawyers
- Raising Hell
- Saturday Night Live
- Vanilla Ice
- Younger Than They Look
- Knute Rockne
- Andy Rooney
- Leo Rosten
- Guillermo Rougier
- Karl Rove
- Naomi Royde-Smith
- Edward Said
- Yves Saint-Laurent
- George Santayana
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
- Adam Savage
- Bob Schieffer
- Oskar Schindler
- Ferdinand von Schirach
- Arnold Schönberg
- Seanbaby
- Akebono
- Boldly Coming
- Breakaway Advertisement
- …But I Play One on TV
- Cane Fu
- Chekhov's Skill
- Coyote Ugly
- CurbStompBattle.Sports
- Decoy Damsel
- Do Not Attempt
- Face Doodling
- Fat Comic Relief
- Freaked
- Kazuyuki Fujita
- Heat Vision and Jack
- Hit You So Hard, Your X Will Feel It!
- I Believe I Can Fly
- Kid Sidekick
- Loot Drama
- Lost in Medias Res
- A Man Is Always Eager
- Marvel Comics
- Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
- Overreacting Airport Security
- Pop Culture Holiday
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...
- Reality Show
- Right-Hand Attack Dog
- Stealthy Colossus
- Storyboarding the Apocalypse
- Surveillance as the Plot Demands
- Traxx
- Weaponized Headgear
- Wild Samoan
- Nick Setchfield
- Melinda Shankar
- Bill Shankly
- Stephen Lea Sheppard
- Maria Shriver
- Tom Siddell
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Marc Silvestri
- John Simonetti
- Lore Sjöberg
- Chest Monster
- Destined Bystander
- Extra Eyes
- False Dichotomy
- Food Pills
- Hydra Problem
- Infinity +1 Sword
- Ironic Hell
- Jump Physics
- Late to the Punchline
- Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me
- Mail-Order Bride
- Parent Service
- Planet Eater
- Precision-Guided Boomerang
- The Scrappy
- Speech-Impaired Animal
- Time Police
- Trick Arrow
- Wolverine Publicity
- William Slim
- Yakov Smirnoff
- H. M. Stanley
- Frank Stella
- Bruce Sterling
- Michael Stipe
- Robert Stone
- James H. Strobridge
- Jeff Stryker
T–Z
- Sara Teasdale
- Reclaimed by Nature ("There Will Come Soft Rains")
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Age Without Youth ("Tithonus")
- The Crimean War ("The Charge of the Light Brigade")
- Mer Tropes ("The Mermaid")
- New Year Has Come ("Ring Out, Wild Bells")
- Saved by the Church Bell ("Ring Out, Wild Bells")
- Mother Teresa
- Tertullian
- Martin Thomas
- Ted Thomas
- Tommy Tiernan
- Linus Torvalds
- Horace Traubel
- Mark Twain
- Accidental Discovery
- Calling Me a Logarithm
- Costume Tropes
- Cry for the Devil
- Generation Xerox
- Generic Ethnic Crime Gang
- German Language
- Goodness Tropes
- A Hell of a Time
- Insignificant Little Blue Planet
- A Lesson Learned Too Well
- Mainstream Obscurity
- SelfDemonstrating.Malaproper
- Malicious Slander
- Mauritius
- Non-Malicious Monster
- Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
- Precision F-Strike
- The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified
- Seasonal Baggage
- David Uzumeri
- John Vachon
- Jessica Valenti
- Binyavanga Wainaina
- Danny Wallace
- George Wallacenote
- Bill Watterson
- Rebecca West
- Simon Whistler
- Ron White
- Richard Wilbur
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Karen Williams
- Matthew Yglesias
- Gan Ying
- Xiang Yu
- Lin Yutang
- ZUN
