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"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Nothing, Past

"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Nothing, World, Wrong

"Out of the water, I am nothing."

Duke Kahanamoku, American Athlete

Nothing, Water

"If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing."

W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist

Nothing, Question, Right

"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing."

Sallust, Roman Historian

Nothing, Will

"I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion."

Les Baxter, American Musician

Nothing,

"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

Nothing, Saying, Witty

"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

Voltaire, French Writer

Nothing,

"There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick."

Kin Hubbard, American Journalist

Nothing, Old

"An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else."

Daniel Keys Moran, American Writer

Nothing, Want, Will

Explore more quotes by Van Wyck Brooks

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

Bible

"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."

Success

"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."

War

"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."

Perception

"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

People

"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

People

"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."

Experience

"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

Man

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."

Knowledge

"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."

Genius