Top 100 Have Nothing To Say Quotes
#1. No one on this earth ever says anything 'once and for all.' If they did, life would come to a stop and succeeding generations would have nothing to say.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#2. Blessed are those who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#3. I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.
Alberto Moravia
#4. The fact that I'm silent doesn't mean I have nothing to say.
Jonathan Carroll
#5. When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, We have nothing to say at this time.
Paul Levine
#6. I did an interview where they were harping on and on about sensuality and sexuality ... really, I have nothing to say about any of that stuff because it's so boring and I never think about it.
Scarlett Johansson
#7. Just because I'm quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say.
Sophia Dembling
#8. Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.
Tucker Max
#9. I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.
John Cage
#10. I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.
Marie Helvin
#11. I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.
Gore Vidal
#12. Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
Pat Conroy
#13. One after another, they were examined. One after another, they proved to have nothing to say
and said it (so far as the women were concerned) at great length ...
Wilkie Collins
#14. Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#15. How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say
John Prine
#16. I have not worked at all ... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#17. Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything
Khaled Hosseini
#18. I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#20. What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?
John Hagee
#21. April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.
Franz Kafka
#22. What are you thinking?" I ask.
"That I wish this was my home, too."
I have nothing to say to this, so I kiss him instead.
Anna Bloom
#23. If you get good ratings, they'll cover you even if you have nothing to say.
Donald Trump
#24. When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
#25. I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better
Joe Hill
#26. No, I don't want to talk about River. I have nothing to say about it that I would want to be public.
Joaquin Phoenix
#27. I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world.
Kelly J. Cogswell
#28. Humans speak too much. They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say.
Katherine Applegate
#29. I have nothing to say to men and never had. Judging from the little time I've spent with them, their usual conversation is sickening. Besides, they bore me. I believe," he hesitated, then concluded, "I believe I don't understand men.
Colette
#30. I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
John Cage
#31. We shall have nothing to say in regard to our own death.
Carlos Fuentes
#32. Game, noun: Any unserious occupation designed for the relaxation of busy people and the distraction of idle ones. It's used to take people to whom we have nothing to say off our hands, and sometimes even ourselves.
Etienne Bonnot De Condillac
#33. To overcome of our enemies we must have our own socialist militarism. We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia's population. As for the rest, we have nothing to say to them. They must be annihilated.
Grigory Zinoviev
#34. To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
Bertolt Brecht
#35. Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I'm not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I'd want you to hear.
Megan McCafferty
#36. I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
Celia Green
#37. Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#40. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
Edward Snowden
#41. Combinations of people, who should have nothing to say to each other. Yet, with hearts that do not recognize it.
Tracy Rees
#42. When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#43. If you're looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something.
Hugh MacLeod
#44. Reading a book is a kind of conversation. You may think it is not conversation at all, because the author does all the talking and you have nothing to say. If you think that, you do not realize your full obligation as a reader - and you are not grasping your opportunities.
Mortimer J. Adler
#45. Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Florence King
#46. Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#47. The figures of rhetoric are the beauties of all poems we have ever read. Without them we would merely be us: eating, sleeping, manufacturing, and dying. With them everything can be glorious. For though we have nothing to say, we can at least say it well.
Mark Forsyth
#48. I realize I have nothing to say to Trent Burroughs as I tell him, "I've been in New York the last four months." New Age Christmas music fails to warm up the chilly vibe. I'm suddenly unsure about everything.
Bret Easton Ellis
#49. Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost
#50. Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus
#51. 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
#52. I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
Graham Norton
#53. Forever is composed of nows," she says. I have nothing to say to that; I am just chewing through it when Margo says, "Emily Dickinson. Like I said, I'm doing a lot of reading.
John Green
#54. I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
Damien Hirst
#55. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.
Hugh MacLeod
#56. If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!
Roland Freisler
#57. Burning in a hot tunnel of dismay, my humiliation complete as I shake without reason and stumble over words and have nothing to say about my 'illness' which anyway amounts only to knowing that there's no point in anything because I'm going to die.
Sarah Kane
#58. The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.
Walter Lippmann
#59. Just when I think I have nothing to say, the characters start to speak. Writing is funny like that.
J.D. Barker
#60. When you have nothing to say,
set something on fire.
Richard Siken
#61. As to who among us is a ghost and who not I have nothing to say: it is a question we can only stare at in silence, like a bird before a snake, hoping it will not swallow us.
J.M. Coetzee
#62. It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.
J.B. Albano
#63. I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.
Andre Leon Talley
#64. Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.
Amy Rogers
#65. Lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say
Roald Dahl
#66. Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
Bill Jay
#67. Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.
Colin Wilson
#68. In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it's because I have nothing to say.
Fernando Pessoa
#69. All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.
Jon McGregor
#70. I want to inform them
that I am not silent
because I have nothing to say.
I am silent
because nobody is listening.
Kelsey Sutton
#72. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence
#73. I don't tweet - I have nothing to say.
Gina Torres
#74. - Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.
I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#75. I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
Yann Martel
#76. I've always said, 'I have nothing to say, only to add.' And it's with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
Gore Vidal
#77. Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid "judgments," you'll find that you have nothing to say.
Steven Pressfield
#78. Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
Michael Caine
#79. I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.
Jamie Bell
#80. Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.
Perry Brass
#81. Why, when it comes to Law, I have nothing to say" answered that personage. "for laws were never meant to be understood, and it is foolish to make the attempt.
L. Frank Baum
#82. After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
Yasmina Reza
#83. Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.
Rick Yancey
#84. If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Mark Twain
#85. Once upon a time, a wise man said, "I have nothing to say!"
Wisdom does not always talk, it talks at the right time, saying the right words.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#87. Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#88. People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.
John Rzeznik
#89. We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
Eric Hoffer
#90. There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson
#91. The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
Max Beerbohm
#92. Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.
Yasmin Mogahed
#93. People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
William S. Burroughs
#94. People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.
Josh Billings
#95. I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say. It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues ... allow them a language as lousy as their life
William H Gass
#96. You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
#97. I have so much to say that I have nothing to say, because I know it won't be helpful to either of us.
Anonymous
#98. I think you and he need to talk. And once you do, I won't have to worry about being jumped like a felon again."
Blay frowned. "He and I have nothing to say to each other - "
"With all due respect, the ligature marks around my neck would suggest otherwise.
J.R. Ward
#99. A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
Billie Joe Armstrong
#100. The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're going to say something, even if we have nothing to say.
Thad Cochran
