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Nothing Quotes


"Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it."


"How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons."



"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."



"I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'."


"A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally."



"Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along."


"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."


"If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing."


"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."


"I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about."


"I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing."


"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."


"Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio."


"There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again."


"When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on."


"We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option."


"I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies."


"I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hates."


"If everything is very important, then nothing is important."



"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."


"One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story."


"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."


"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."


"There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it."


"Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it."


"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat."


"When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay."


"I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book."


"We expect everything and are prepared for nothing."


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


"I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while."


"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing."


"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."


"I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him."
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