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"Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread."

"Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread."

Charles Nicole, French Scientist

Nothing, Open, Problems, Study

38

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

Alexander Hamilton, American Politician

38

"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing."

"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

38

"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."

"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."

Thornton Wilder, American Novelist

38

"The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock."

"The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock."

Sam Ervin, American Politician

Nothing, Past, President, Privilege

38

"There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."

"There is no such thing as good painting about nothing."

Mark Rothko, American Artist

Nothing, Painting

38

"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."

"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."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

Nothing, Wonder, World

38

"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was."

"Nothing is ever the same as they said it was."

Diane Arbus, American Photographer

38

"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."

"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."

Hank Aaron, American Athlete

38

"Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare."

"Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare."

Dudley North, English Economist

Nothing, Trade, Want

38

"Nothing, like something, happens anywhere."

"Nothing, like something, happens anywhere."

Philip Larkin, English Poet

38

"A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now."

"A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now."

Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer

38

"Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third."

"Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

Nothing, Physics

38

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

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

Michael Davis, American Cartoonist

37

"Civility costs nothing, and buys everything."

"Civility costs nothing, and buys everything."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

37

"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."

"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."

George Woodcock, Canadian Writer

37

"Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real."

"Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real."

Andre Malraux, French Author

Nothing, Opium, Suffering

37

"When you win, nothing hurts."

"When you win, nothing hurts."

Joe Namath, American Athlete

37

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

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

Willie Stargell, American Athlete

37

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."

"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."

Rene Descartes, French Mathematician

37

"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."

"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed."

Titus Livius, Roman Historian

37

"Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form."

"Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form."

Lester Bangs, American Critic

37

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

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

Dan Marino, American Athlete

37

"Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station."

"Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station."

Ada Louise Huxtable, American Critic

37

"The World Coming Down tour was around four years ago, and other than the wear and tear we've all sustained in the last four years, nothing much has changed."

"The World Coming Down tour was around four years ago, and other than the wear and tear we've all sustained in the last four years, nothing much has changed."

Josh Silver, American Musician

Nothing, World, Years

37

"I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess."

"I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess."

Fanny Burney, English Novelist

37

"There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it."

"There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it."

Alexander Herzen, Russian Journalist

37

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

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

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

37

"Nothing amazes me anymore."

"Nothing amazes me anymore."

David Beckham, English Athlete

37

"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."

"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."

Christopher Atkins, American Actor

37

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

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

Dave Barry, American Journalist

37

"In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on."

"In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on."

Jude Law, British Actor

Nothing, Now, Public

37

"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."

"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."

Michael Burgess, British Celebrity

37

"To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding."

"To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

Nothing, Understanding

37

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

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

Martina Navratilova, American Athlete

36

"Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything."

"Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything."

Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese Athlete

36

"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist

36

"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."

"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."

Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

36

"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now."

"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now."

Thomas Pynchon, American Writer

Nothing, Now, Sky

36

"There is nothing like practice."

"There is nothing like practice."

Alan Hovhaness, American Composer

Nothing, Practice

36

"I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed."

"I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed."

Fiona Apple, American Musician

Nothing, Sarcastic, Therapy

36

"I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good."

"I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good."

Michael Fish, English Celebrity

Nothing, Trees, Will

36

"They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing."

"They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing."

Kathie Lee Gifford, American Entertainer

36

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

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

Isabelle Adjani, French Actress

36

"You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever."

"You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever."

Charisma Carpenter, American Actress

36

"If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening."

"If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening."

Jamal Lewis, American Athlete

36

"There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe."

"There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe."

Gordon Brown, British Politician

36

"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"

"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!"

Richard Bach, American Novelist

36

"What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it."

"What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it."

Morley Safer, Canadian Journalist

Nothing, Reality

36

"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

J. B. Priestley, British Writer

36

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