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Nothing Quotes


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


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


"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."


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


"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."


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


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


"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed."


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


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


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


"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on."


"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say."


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


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


"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."


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


"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."
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