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Nothing Quotes


"I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches."


"Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game."


"A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone."



"Well, I don't have anything to say to Mr. Sneddon, you know? Nothing at all."



"'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties."


"Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too."


"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."



"I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly."



"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly."


"Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do."



"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."


"There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth."


"Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper."



"My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing."


"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence."



"The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."


"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."


"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."


"But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled."



"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."


"Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it."


"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."


"Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense."


"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."


"Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee."


"Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."


"To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative."


"I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing."
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