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Nothing Quotes



"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."



"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."



"For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up."


"There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises."


"Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real."


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


"Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before."


"I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them."



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


"Nothing makes you feel that you've overstayed your welcome like a flower arrangement that has withered and died."


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


"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."


"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips."


"It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."


"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."



"I have nothing to say to the nothing that has been said."


"There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh."


"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."


"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."


"There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party."


"Nothing I do can't be done by a 10-year-old with 15 years of practice."


"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."



"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."


"Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss."


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


"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."


"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."



"If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!"


"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."


"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."


"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."


"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."


"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
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