The phrase "attributed to everyone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a statement, idea, or quality that is commonly associated with or credited to all people or a broad group.
Example: "The idea of kindness is often attributed to everyone, regardless of their background."
Alternatives: "credited to all" or "ascribed to everyone".
But Adams was conspicuously guilty of the vice of vanity he attributed to everyone else in public life.
There's an old saying about the writing mindset – attributed to everyone from Dorothy Parker to George RR Martin – which essentially runs: "Writing is intolerable, not writing is intolerable; the only acceptable state is having just written".
Someone — it's been attributed to everyone from Dostoyevsky to John Gardner — once said there are only two possible stories: a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town.
Shergar In the quarter-century since his disappearance, the kidnap of Shergar on 8 February 1983 has been attributed to everyone from Lord Lucan to Colonel Gadaffi and has inspired countless conspiracy theories (hair dye, Belgian ringers, a deep freeze) as well as an imaginative 1990 movie starring Mickey Rourke ('If they find us, it's a bullet in the head!').
► There's a quote that's been attributed to everyone from Laurie Anderson to Frank Zappa, via Elvis Costello and Thelonious Monk: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture".
This aphorism, variously attributed to everyone from humorist James Thurber to politician Paul Tsongas, has always stuck in my mind: "Nobody on their deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time at the office".
By James Surowiecki During the recent U.N. Climate Summit, it was hard not to think of the quip, attributed to Charles Dudley Warner, "Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it".
During the recent U.N. Climate Summit, it was hard not to think of the quip, attributed to Charles Dudley Warner, "Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it".
Long the go-to guy for intense anxiety in such films as "Fargo" and "Magnolia," Macy… During the recent U.N. Climate Summit, it was hard not to think of the quip, attributed to Charles Dudley Warner, "Everyone complains about the weather,… L.A.'s Warpaint, which will play Webster Hall on Oct. 14, found its natural sound by letting itself dissolve.
But boosters for the new pot economy have taken to citing an adage attributed to Mark Twain: "When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick-and-shovel business".
Many children who suffer from depression, generalized anxiety disorder (which is not the same as teen angst), ADHD, executive function impairment, ODD, dyslexia, sensory issues, and/or are on the autism spectrum can "pass" for normal, their symptoms attributed to bad behavior or (everyone's favorite) bad parenting.
