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Nothing Quotes


"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."



"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."


"This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more."


"I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made."


"Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was."


"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."



"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures."


"Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it."


"What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!"


"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."


"There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold."


"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."


"Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something."


"I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else."


"You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect."


"There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing."


"There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else."



"You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else."



"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer."



"There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention."


"TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done."


"The reason this resolution was delayed had nothing to do with anything Karl did or failed to do."


"A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing."


"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."


"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."


"The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight."


"There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing."


"Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having."


"If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him."


"There is nothing more dangerous than security."


"Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid."



"There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing."


"When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head."


"I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun."


"I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else."


"There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you."



"Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again."



"Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!"
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