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Nothing Quotes


"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."


"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."


"I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible."


"I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence."


"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."


"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."


"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."


"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."


"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."


"There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast."


"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."


"My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days."


"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."


"I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing."


"To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing."


"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."


"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."


"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."


"I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter."


"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."


"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."


"Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out."


"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."


"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."


"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."


"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."


"If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing."


"Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile."


"I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter."


"Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe."


"He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel."


"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles."


"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."


"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."


"There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it."


"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space."


"The more honest you can be, the less you have to hide... when I have nothing to hide, I have everything to give."
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