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Nothing Quotes


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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!"


"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."


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


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


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


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


"We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past."


"I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!"


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."


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


"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."


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


"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."


"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."


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


"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."


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