Top 100 From Nothing Quotes
#1. I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
Barret Oliver
#2. If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.
James Finley
#3. Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.
Billy Corgan
#4. I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.
Jason Falkner
#5. I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.
Al Walser
#6. I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.
J. L. Mackie
#7. No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing.
Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison could invent the electric light-bulb.
Daniel Quinn
#9. From nothing I have created another entirely new world.
Janos Bolyai
#10. A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, ... not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.
Salman Rushdie
#11. From nothing to everything is a long way, from everything to nothing is one stop.
Wladimir Klitschko
#12. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
#13. When you start lower, you have to fight for every scrap of space you occupy in the world... Even starting from nothing, I had more luck than you. If you had been born a boy, the whole world would tremble before you.
Kiersten White
#15. I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'
Juicy J
#16. Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
Tracy Chapman
#17. Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing.
Jonathan Tropper
#18. I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all.
Rashida Jones
#19. you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something.
Maria Montessori
#20. The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.
Dorothy Allison
#21. One theory is that the universe came from nothing. i.e. perhaps bubble-universes collided, as in a bubble bath, and gave birth to the universe. Or perhaps the big bang was created by a bubble-universe which split into two universes. The universe does seem to be compatible with nothing.
Michio Kaku
#22. My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
Frank Herbert
#23. We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Zinedine Zidane
#24. When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
#25. It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.
Paul Heyman
#26. He'd gone from being just my tormentor to being my tormentor and protector, though I needed protection from nothing but him.
Kitty Thomas
#27. We come from nothing, we go back into nothing.
That nothing is something, that something is everything.
That everything is the cosmos.
Is this a grand joke telling us? What we really are; just nothing.
Gian Kumar
#29. My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
Vince Vaughn
#30. If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.
Arius
#31. Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.
Roshon Fegan
#32. You have to create something from nothing.
Ralph Lauren
#33. A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair.
Ludwig Buchner
#34. A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
Paul Davies
#35. Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
Stephen Hawking
#36. If God was able to create [from nothing] that which had never existed, He can certainly recreate that which had already existed.
Hayim H. Donin
#37. To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
Seneca The Younger
#38. Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
Leonard Cohen
#39. - You're not a believer, are you? Haines asked. I mean, a believer in the narrow sense of the word. Creation from nothing and miracles and a personal God. - There's only one sense of the word, it seems to me, Stephen said.
James Joyce
#40. I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
Alice Meynell
#41. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.
Isaac Newton
#42. He had a vision of a nation. The incredible martial skills of the Mongol tribes had always been wasted against each other. From nothing, surrounded by enemies, Temujin rose to unite them all. What came next would shake the world.
Conn Iggulden
#43. Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
Rumi
#44. all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom; and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive, than of the cogitative part of our natures.
Bertrand Russell
#45. I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.
Lauren Slater
#46. Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
Lucretius
#47. Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling ... it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it's cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life.
Jayne Mansfield
#48. I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#49. Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.
Dane Cook
#50. The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.
Brenna Yovanoff
#51. When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.
Swami Vivekananda
#52. The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.
Lykke Li
#53. What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?
Richard Dawkins
#54. Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow.
Neale Donald Walsch
#55. I think it has a vibe because we're all so different and individual ... so it's fantastic when we come together as a group. Then at the same time we're all coming from the same place - Idol. We all went from nothing to something in two months ... so we understand each other.
Kate DeAraugo
#56. A faint is one breath away from nothing. Only it is far worse than actually being nothing because the only thing left of you is the memory of having once been a something.
Rebecca Taylor
#57. I love the satisfaction of living in a world on a Wednesday where a song didn't exist that you're going to create on a Thursday that's going to change somebody's life, possibly, you're creating that from nothing.
Noel Gallagher
#58. I thought of going the rest of my life pretending I sprang to life from nothing at sixteen years old and felt my cheeks flush with shame and anger. I was so tired of cowering. I was so tired of hiding. I wanted to tell the truth, to say it out loud.
Meredith Russo
#59. The idea of a star being born is bushwa. A star is created, carefully and cold-bloodily, built up from nothing, from nobody. Age, beauty, talent, least of all talent, has nothing to do with it. We could make silk purses out of sows' ears every day of the week.
Louis B. Mayer
#60. I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.
Uzo Aduba
#61. I represent the kids who come from nothing but who understand it all and love it all. That's what I represent - those are the cool kids, you know, the kids of tomorrow, because who would've known that I'd be who I am today? We are the kids of tomorrow.
ASAP Rocky
#62. It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.
Ray Comfort
#63. If I made you from nothing, then maybe I am God, and because I want More, maybe I'm the Devil.
Craig Clevenger
#64. Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.
Joseph Haydn
#65. I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.
Tavoris Cloud
#66. The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.
Emil Cioran
#67. I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.
David Zaslav
#68. Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific.
Paul Davies
#69. Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)
Charles R. Swindoll
#70. It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.
Craig Thompson
#71. My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.
Thalia
#72. If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.
Ben Parr
#73. I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
Mitt Romney
#74. I still believe, though. In existing. In ex nihilo nihil fit. If nothing comes from nothing, we cannot return to it. Ergo life has a reason and needs to be.
Lavie Tidhar
#75. Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I've ever seen. He was so fast he could score from nothing and could shoot the ball better than anyone I've ever seen.
Lionel Messi
#77. You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
Barry Mann
#78. If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?
Stephen Hawking
#79. I came so far- from nothing to a Super Bowl championship
Michael Oher
#80. There is an example that inspires a matter for debate. Was the pattern always there for us to find or do we create it entirely by ourselves from nothing?
Philip Dodd
#81. The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
#82. Our heart creates everything from nothing. That is the magical power of love.
Debasish Mridha
#83. Most of us start from nothing, with plenty of rejection. I remind myself of that whenever I get to feeling too important.
Kate Alcott
#84. One creates from nothing. If you try to create from something you're just changing something. So in order to create something you first have to be able to create nothing.
Werner Erhard
#85. If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.
Martha Wainwright
#86. The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity ... It's the limit case for likelihood.
Terence McKenna
#87. I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
Waka Flocka Flame
#88. Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.
Brian Williams
#89. We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!
Graham Chapman
#90. Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.
Mark Lawrence
#91. This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats ... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!
Mr. Lee
#92. To get something from nothing means God will do everything and people don't have to do anything.
Sunday Adelaja
#93. But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.
Bruce Perens
#94. Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain!
Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
#95. A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it.
Maria Montessori
#96. Science describes the world; it doesn't explain it: it can describe the universe's formation, but it cannot explain why such an event would have occurred, how something can come from nothing.
Christina Meldrum
#98. No more running-from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this Earth. I took one journey and I paid for the ticket, but let me tell you something, Paul D. Garner: it cost too much!
Toni Morrison
#99. You make life when you play," I said. "You create something from nothing. You make something good happen.
Anne Rice
