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Nothing Quotes


"The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them."


"There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos."


"A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better."


"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."


"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot."


"I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of."


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


"We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do."


"There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me."


"To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent."


"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."


"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."


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


"Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous."


"I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face."


"Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride."


"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."



"There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view."


"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."


"He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all."


"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"


"As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated."


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


"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."


"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."


"You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it."


"Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it."


"I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches."


"There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty."


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


"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."


"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."
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