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Nothing Quotes


"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."


"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."


"No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing."


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


"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."


"I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove."


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


"Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?"


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


"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television."


"I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted."


"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."


"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."


"The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on."


"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."


"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."


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


"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."


"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."


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


"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."


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


"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."


"There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe."


"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence."


"Nothing is going to stop Mike Tyson that doesn't have a motor attached."


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


"Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications."


"I'm dumbfounded, but nothing surprises me in this game."


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


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


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


"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."


"Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so."


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


"Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever."
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