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Nothing Quotes



"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."


"A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that."


"A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable."


"We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them."


"There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things."


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


"I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working."


"There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick."



"All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way."


"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."


"I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters."


"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."


"I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion."



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



"You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing."


"You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with."


"I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true."


"I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible."


"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."


"I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose."


"I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better."


"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."


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


"I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special."


"No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward."


"And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about."


"Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors."


"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."



"Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating."


"I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible."


"Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better."


"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."


"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle."


"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."


"Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it."


"It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go."



"But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me."


"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."


"We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is."
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