Top 100 Have Nothing To Do Quotes
#1. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Jeremy Collier
#2. You can't photograph the hugest mysteries of the universe that really have nothing to do with what shows up before your eyes, under a microscope, through a telescope, in the pages of books.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#3. Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.
Daniel Okrent
#4. If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.
Jacques Audiard
#5. The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life alone and enjoy solitude, especially if it is raining and their crust is hard.
Jose Saramago
#6. I think I have broken the mould that actresses have to be extremely thin on screen. All those who are making my weight an issue just prove that people are jealous. These are people who have nothing to do in life except to stare at their computer screens and make comments on us.
Sonakshi Sinha
#7. Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
John Berger
#8. God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself affirms His unity by my tongue, it is He and His affair. Otherwise, brother, I have nothing to do with affirming God's Unity.
Mansur Al-Hallaj
#9. The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#10. The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#11. Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.
Louis Stokes
#12. [Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.
Elvis Costello
#13. We love disasters that have nothing to do with us
Mark Doty
#14. The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to time we hear the opposite, then those are just trivial religious and poetical exaggerations and ridiculous rumors, which have nothing to do with the real circumstances of the simple dead.
Hassan Blasim
#15. I love America. I'm concerned about America and I believe the heart and soul of conservatives and Republicans recognize that the principles that Donald Trump is talking about have nothing to do with conservatism, nothing to do with keeping America strong.
Mitt Romney
#16. There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#17. Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Charles Caleb Colton
#18. At this moment, I have nothing to do or ponder except love and wonder.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.
Annia Ciezadlo
#20. People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.
Neil Gaiman
#21. I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.
Jacqueline Bisset
#22. I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.
Paul Mooney
#23. Body parts have nothing to do with love, and why anyone would think so is beyond me.
E.A. Fry
#24. I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.
Alexandra Adornetto
#25. I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!
Linda Grant
#26. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
#27. I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.
Daron Malakian
#28. Like many people who have nothing to do, he was very resentful of any claims on his time.
William S. Burroughs
#29. When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
Placido Domingo
#30. To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.
Johannes Heesters
#32. Contrary to repeated claims from President Obama and the NSA, it is already clear that a substantial number of the agency's activities have nothing to do with antiterrorism efforts or even with national security.
Glenn Greenwald
#33. Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
Erykah Badu
#34. I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
Bobby Fischer
#35. But unlike sirens, selkies don't mean any harm with their songs. They don't sing to seduce or to kill. Their songs have nothing to do with anyone but themselves. They sing for the simple joy of it, and because of that, I imagine their songs are more beautiful than those of any siren.
Betsy Cornwell
#36. Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
Russell Simmons
#38. I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.
Tom Brady
#39. It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.
Dee Hock
#40. I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn't happening before they found out about it
which most times is always late, and they didn't have nothing to do with it happening.
Miles Davis
#41. When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.
Joyce Rachelle
#42. We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.
Epictetus
#43. To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.
Rob Bell
#44. The key to fighting in the dark was no different: you had to perceive your opponent, sense him, and never use your imagination. The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you. From
Adam Johnson
#45. He was astonished at the course that life could take, at the way things that had seemed once to concern him so much
indeed to revolve around him
could turn out to have nothing to do with him at all.
Michael Chabon
#46. Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
Edward Hopper
#47. We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East ... The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael ... [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
#48. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
Oscar Wilde
#49. The late Dr. [David] Bogue is reported to have one day said to some of his students, "Do you suppose that people have nothing to do but to listen to your emptiness by the hour?"-William Jay
George Redford
#50. Smile and let your Heart Shine!
Once you realize that people around you have nothing to do with your faults and losses, you will never have to wear a fake smile. Smile and emit the positive energy. Smile and Love your Surroundings ...
Mahsati Abdul
#51. Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence
George Orwell
#52. She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.
Gayle Forman
#53. Today, I have nothing to do except to feel the joy if life.
Debasish Mridha
#54. What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.
Peter Rollins
#55. Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.
Bryan Kest
#56. Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
Sharon Jones
#57. I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.
Jencarlos Canela
#58. We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit , power , and love of our Redeemer.
William James
#59. Any number of roads can lead to the corner office, and some of them have nothing to do with leadership.
R. Albert Mohler Jr.
#60. If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.
George Matthew Adams
#61. Why is it, when I have nothing to do, I drink more coffee? It's as if I'm in a big hurry to get nothing done.
Dana Gould
#62. By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.
John Langdon-Davies
#63. Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.
Robert Greene
#64. I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
Angel Olsen
#65. When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations, thoughts, language. Thus I am now me again, I am here, I go about my ordinary business, I have nothing to do with the book, or, to be exact, I entered it, but I can no longer enter it.
Elena Ferrante
#66. When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain.
Sherri Baldy
#67. although my sudden goosebumps have nothing to do with the climate.
Paige Toon
#68. The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.
Edgar Allan Poe
#69. Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.
Marcel Duchamp
#70. I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I've thought and found all on my own - on my own, not through you.
Helen Oyeyemi
#71. My favorite time of the holidays is when the children have torn open their loot and delivered their verdicts and are looking to you for something else ... memories that have nothing to do with things bought.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#72. Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.
Brian Tracy
#73. I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#74. Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
Busy Philipps
#75. There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#76. Not only does free trade have nothing to do with democracy, but in most cases throughout history the two have been inimical. Free trade prospered only at the expense of democracy and the freedom of the majority.
Michael Hogan
#77. People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.
Marc Edwards
#78. People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.
Fran Lebowitz
#79. Being attractive should have nothing to do with being accepted. It is what is inside a person that matters,
Julie Garwood
#80. The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks ... It's like they're supposed to be taking care of their chicks. But because they don't have any, they have nothing to do with all their energy. So they just pick fights.
Maria Semple
#81. Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
Courtney Love
#82. I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.
Emilio Pucci
#83. The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.
Toni Morrison
#84. To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#85. The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.
Bertrand Russell
#86. The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.
Samuel Johnson
#88. Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
Rabindranath Tagore
#89. You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip ... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.
John Milius
#90. On my honor, I believe it is characteristic of virtue to have nothing to do with riches!" thought he.
Honore De Balzac
#91. With all of those events, I didn't realize I was seeing something amazing for the first and last time. And I'm saying that those things, those random, crazy surprises that have nothing to do with life decisions or your past or your future, might be worth sticking around for.
Anne Frasier
#92. On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers ... I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.
Alan Feduccia
#93. Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.
John Benjamin Hickey
#94. That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film.
Clemence Poesy
#95. I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.
Roger Stone
#96. Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?
David Finkel
#97. Never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.
Swami Vivekananda
#98. The best heroes always have scars. If they didn't, the heroine would have nothing to do. It's her job to help the hero let all that stuff go in order that her man can be strong enough to fight on but when he's with here's free to just breathe.
Kristen Ashley
#99. If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business ... they just gesticulate a little bit more.
Christian Bale
#100. If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson
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