Top 100 Can't Do Anything Quotes
#1. I can't do anything without the ball so when I don't have it I have to go get it!
Daryl Morey
#2. I get very creative when I'm trapped in a plane and I can't do anything else.
Shaun Tan
#3. I ought to get some shut-eye. All this thinking isn't doing me any good. Something good might happen tomorrow, anyway. Today's over now. I can't do anything about that. Tomorrow's what's important now. What will I do tomorrow?
Ao Jyumonji
#4. A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.
Jamaica Kincaid
#5. Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out.
Aphex Twin
#6. A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can't do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.
Fredrik Backman
#7. Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.
LeCrae
#8. I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.
Simon Pegg
#10. She's one of these beautiful women who's just a nobody and a nothing, and when they make it big, they always fall apart. Money can't do anything for them. Fame only makes things worse.
Anne Rampling
#11. That tragic kind of love is the kind that consumes you until you can't do anything but live and breathe it. When you have that kind of love, you know you've found what true love is all about. So really, when you think about it, dying for the person you love isn't all that tragic at all.
Emma Hart
#12. You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
Saul Williams
#13. You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.
Julian Assange
#14. Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.
Rush Limbaugh
#15. I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.
Tim Roth
#16. Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#17. If you can't do anything about it, don't worry about it.
Jeanne Calment
#18. That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.
Alexandra Roach
#19. If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.
Eliza Coupe
#20. You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
H.L. Mencken
#21. Everyone's saying you can't do anything until you can do everything, and in life I've never found that to be the case. To me, first you crawl, then you walk, then you run. And so let's get on with it. Let's stick something in the ground and not pretend that it's perfect.
Donald Rumsfeld
#22. You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
Jack Gantos
#23. A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
Julie Garwood
#25. You can't do anything with a man whose mind is gone.
Ruth Downie
#26. I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
Philippa Gregory
#27. I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.
Isabelle Huppert
#28. I can't do anything about my past, but I can do a lot to cooperate with my destiny. I am re-created in Christ Jesus, born anew, that I might do the good works that he laid out for me and live the good life.
Joyce Meyer
#29. I see characters lying all the time in a lot of Hollywood movies. They can't do this because it would affect the movie this way or that or this demographic might not like it. To me a character can't do anything good or bad, they can only do something that's true or not.
Quentin Tarantino
#30. You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.
Franz Kafka
#31. Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrument and you have to be so good, it's like boot camp out there; I can't do anything - just sleep, sing and be very healthy.
Gloria Estefan
#32. It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.
Mae Whitman
#33. What does 'stuck' mean?" "It means I should make some big decision, I should do some enormous thing. And I can't do anything. I can't stand my life, and I can't change it." "Maybe it's not an enormous thing," he says. "Maybe you have to do one small thing and then another small thing.
A.M. Homes
#34. I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
Jeffrey Archer
#35. You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.
John Krasinski
#36. But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more.
Craig Groeschel
#37. You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else
Marie Sexton
#38. And now, I'm thinking again, isn't there something we can do about something we can't do anything about?
Hiromu Arakawa
#39. Syn opened a door to their right. "Sumi? Get in here and let Hauk know that you're okay. I can't do anything with this unreasonable, surly bastard."
"He's not unreasonable. He's just fierce.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. You can't do anything. You can only love them and then let them go.
Jennifer Li
#41. If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change.
Tony Gaskins
#42. There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.
Patsy Kelly
#43. Problems don't always get fixed. Lots of the time things are boring or dumb for no good reason. Or even terrible. And you can't do anything about it. That's life.
Laurel Snyder
#45. Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first ... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
Elizabeth George
#46. The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.
David Hasselhoff
#47. I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.
Jana Kramer
#48. When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
E.W. Howe
#49. I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.
Lou Reed
#50. All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it ... Then you understand the horror of war.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#51. Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#52. Sometimes we can't do anything about our social condition, but we can do something about our condition of light.
Frederick Lenz
#53. A newborn is murderous/but can't do anything about it.
Kathleen Ossip
#54. Then I saw ... you see ... I saw that you can't do anything for anybody. We can't save each other. Or ourselves.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#55. You can't do anything as long as you are afraid of what might happen. Fear clouds opportunities, erases possibilities, and limits the ability to move beyond the place in which the mind is stuck. No matter how difficult we think the problem is, we must muster up the courage to face it.
Iyanla Vanzant
#56. I can't read, can't listen to music. I can't do anything but just sit there, waiting for morning to come.
Haruki Murakami
#57. Spit on your own and you can't do anything, but if you all spit together you can drown the bastards
Bob Crow
#58. O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
Marshall Brickman
#59. Having been in Congress, you know that's part of our responsibility the constituent has a problem, We're supposed to write back and say, 'Well I can't do anything' That's not what they elect you for.
Bob Dole
#60. You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.
Brian Eno
#61. I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
Mallory Ortberg
#62. I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself ... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything
Kanye West
#63. I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.
Bo Derek
#64. I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
Laura Mvula
#65. I don't realize how badly I've needed to say those words until they've left my mouth. They hang in the air. And all I want now is to be away from them. To leave the truth behind. Because if I can't do anything about it, I certainly don't want to face it.
Lauren DeStefano
#66. Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.
Mahbod Seraji
#67. But I can't clean your blood and yours, I'm afraid, is tainted. We'll educate you, feed and clothe you, send you out into the world. But I can't do anything to purify your blood.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#68. People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.
Greg Norman
#69. The first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.
Jamaica Kincaid
#70. Sometimes to imagine that you are having fuck with a sexy girl or a hot girl or with a girl which you want to have. It's useless it won't happen, and you can't do anything!
Deyth Banger
#71. All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die ... Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.
Isaac Asimov
#72. Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.
Richard Paul Evans
#73. Good point. Getting you all hot and bothered when I can't do anything about it sucks. I'll cool it for now and then talk dirty again when we're heading home. That way the only sucking will be the good kind.
Cardeno C.
#74. I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.
Annie Dillard
#75. I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.
Tony Benn
#76. People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.
Katherine Rundell
#77. One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
Harper Lee
#78. I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.
Jason Lee
#79. We have to let go of fears of things we can't do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positives.
Jay Woodman
#80. You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can't do anything without money. [Donald] Trump has.
Rush Limbaugh
#81. We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
Nigel Lythgoe
#82. I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.
Woody Allen
#83. You can't do anything about yesterday tomorrow
Manny Trillo
#84. I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
Richard Foreman
#85. I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.
Tom Brady
#86. It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
Israel Horovitz
#87. It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#88. When things are really desperate and hopeless and you can't do anything about this, and there's a sense that something must be done, that is something usually leads to the U.N.
Kofi Annan
#89. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
John Aniston
#90. Abba, you may not like it, but what I'm doing is important. If you don't agree, then I'm sorry. I can't do anything about it.
Farahad Zama
#91. But I also enjoy life ... the more scrutiny I am under, the more confident I become. I am who I am. I can't do anything about it, and I love who I am.
Khloe Kardashian
#92. Character is how you treat people who can't do anything for you in return.
Integrity is how you act when you think nobody is looking.
Thea Nishimori
#93. Katie, 90% of the things you worry about don't happen, and the 10% that do, you can't do anything about.
Mary Fisher
#95. I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.
Sandra J. Jackson
#96. I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.
Amy Adams
#97. I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!
Dane Cook
#98. Never ever let anyone tell you, you can't do anything you are set out to do in life. We are all gifted".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#99. You can't do anything else with people like this. You have to kill them all. Zil. Caine. Drake. You just have to kill them
Michael Grant
#100. Dating now is a lot like going shopping when you don't have any money. Even if you find the right thing, you can't do anything about it.
Joshua Harris
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