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Nothing Quotes


"Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable."


"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."


"Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles."


"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."



"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."


"In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct."



"He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel."



"Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out."


"There is nothing like playing for the team you grew up rooting for."



"He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned."


"I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read."



"There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on."


"I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing."



"What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else."



"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."


"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."


"Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it."


"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."


"The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all."


"Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium."


"The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal."


"Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable."


"Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost."



"You lose some, you win some. Nothing wrong with that at all."


"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker."



"I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing."


"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."


"You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems."


"Of course, nothing happens until somebody sells something."


"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."


"I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it."
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