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Nothing Quotes


"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."


"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."


"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly."


"You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else."


"Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere."


"One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true."



"If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it."


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


"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."


"I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly."


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


"If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special."


"Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system."


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


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


"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."


"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."


"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."


"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."


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


"A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common."


"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."


"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"


"I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations."


"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."


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


"Nothing comes merely by thinking about it."


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


"A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh."


"Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it."


"There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients."
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