I Have Nothing To Say Quotes

#1. I wanted to go home to the safety of my bed and to my stuffed animals and to my people I'd known my whole life. I had nothing to say to anybody, and fervently prayed that no one there would have anything to say to me.

Rachel Cohn

#2. I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

Eminem

#3. I've got nothing against tattoos. I don't have one myself. If I did, it would be right there next to my watch. It would say Your wife's birthday is August 2nd, your anniversary is September 18th, don't let Ron White drive your car again.

Jeff Foxworthy

#4. Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.

Milan Kundera

#5. There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

Hill Harper

#6. I love Greg," said one of his bosses at Deutsche Bank. "I have nothing bad to say about him except that he's a fucking whack job.

Michael Lewis

#7. Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance.

Julia Glass

#8. The moral? If there isn't demand for what you are creating, nothing I have to say in this chapter will help.

Robin Chase

#9. I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

Carla Hall

#10. As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

Peter Jackson

#11. I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

Alberto Moravia

#12. If there is a God, I guess he has nothing to say about it. If there is a God, he must have gotten tired of watching a long time ago.

Lauren Oliver

#13. Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.

George Eliot

#14. The fact that I'm silent doesn't mean I have nothing to say.

Jonathan Carroll

#15. I have spoken softly, gone my ways softly, all my days, as behoves one who has nothing to say, nowhere to go, and so nothing to gain by being seen or heard.

Samuel Beckett

#16. We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.

Holly Black

#17. I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

Adam Lambert

#18. 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

#19. I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say 'I'm Stupid.' That way you wouldn't rely on them, and you wouldn't ask them for nothing.

Bill Engvall

#20. In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Venus Williams

#21. It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to me and say, 'Venita, I plan to fail.' Yet I have observed many who failed to plan and who unfortunately met with the same dismal results.

Venita VanCaspel

#22. Think about what I said, Kat. You have nothing to prove."
"I don't?"
"No," I said, and I'd say it a thousand times.
But I knew screaming it from the top of Seneca Rocks wasn't going to change how she felt.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

Ole Hallesby

#24. Just because I'm quiet doesn't mean I have nothing to say.

Sophia Dembling

#25. I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said ... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I'm wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.

Harry Belafonte

#26. I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

Karl Hyde

#27. You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself, 'I love you and nothing will destroy you and you're not going to fall.'

Ricky Martin

#28. If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

Kim Kardashian

#29. I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.

John Cage

#30. Every little trifle for some reason does seem incalculably important today and when you say of a thing that "nothing hangs on it" it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it forever.

E. M. Forster

#31. I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.

Marie Helvin

#32. 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

#33. When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.

Tupac Shakur

#34. When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good ... nothing is too difficult for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

#35. If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.

Bethenny Frankel

#36. There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.

Henrik Ibsen

#37. Do they choose to be so dense? Were they born that way? I have no friends. I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#38. A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

Mads Mikkelsen

#39. I think it's perhaps fair to say we've been one of the most influential Royal Commissions this country ever had and there's nothing we have said that isn't relevant to the present situation.

Frank Scott

#40. I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

Damon Lindelof

#41. 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.

#42. I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back ... I can only say; God Save Ireland!

Edward Condon

#43. I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

Richard Wagner

#44. I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

Peter Ackroyd

#45. 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

#46. Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

Eric Davis

#47. I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy!

Daniel Radcliffe

#48. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

C.S. Lewis

#49. I have nothing to say to him [Ronald Reagan], because he is mad. He is foolish. He is an Israeli dog.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#50. No, of course she didn't say it. But there is no other reason she should have called, except to pave the way for her brother. she had nothing whatsoever to talk about. Just sat there like a stick, sipping tea."
"I didn't know sticks could sip tea.

Tessa Dare

#51. There is an old saying "well begun is half done" - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, "Not begun at all till half done;" so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.

John Keats

#52. The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.

Charles M. Schwab

#53. You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

Henry Rollins

#54. It's a privilege to have the career I have, to love every day and be following my passion, the stories that interest me, to remote locations and people. So nothing stops me from that - but yes, it seems redundant in documentary-filmmaker circles today to say the biggest struggle was financing.

Pietra Brettkelly

#55. I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers' appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly.

Julie Klausner

#56. In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

David Rakoff

#57. To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

Swami Vivekananda

#58. If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.

Donald Miller

#59. Ay, wait," Rojer said. "Don't I get a say in this? All a sudden I'm intended, and have to live with my new mother-in-law?" "What's wrong with my mum?" Kendall demanded. "Nothing," Rojer said. "Corespawned right," Kendall said.

Peter V. Brett

#60. I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#61. You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

George Bernard Shaw

#62. Judge spoke in a pained whisper. "I fucked up, Duke. I tossed him aside like he meant nothing. Now he wouldn't take me back if I begged." "You sure?" Duke exhaled a cloud of smoke. "Have you even tried?" Judge steepled his hands in front of him and listened to what Duke had to say.

A.E. Via

#63. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.

Jim Parsons

#64. Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

Elisabetta Canalis

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#68. I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

Joe Hill

#69. I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation.

Kathryn Stockett

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Ted Turner

#73. Many people say, "Oh, we have nothing against Puerto Ricans," and I wanted a way to unmask the people that say that they have nothing against gay people.

Luis Negron

#74. To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that.

Nicole Kidman

#75. My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

Cynthia Nixon

#76. I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.

Jimmy Page

#77. I don't have to do nothing you say, you old heifer cow. And you are old. Really, really old. And a cow, too. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#78. I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#79. I have become lost to the world
In which I otherwise wasted so much time
It means nothing to me
Whether the world believes me dead
I can hardly say anything to refute it
For truly, I am no longer a part of the world.

Hanya Yanagihara

#80. I have nothing intelligent to say.

Meg Tilly

#81. Alaric waited. It's a good enough trick. Say nothing and men feel compelled to fill the silence, even if it's with things they would rather have kept secret. It's a good enough trick, but I know it and I said nothing.

Mark Lawrence

#82. 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

#83. I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

Linda Grant

#84. I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

John Cage

#85. Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

Sasha Alexander

#86. Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?"
"I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

Madeline Miller

#87. Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

Marie Rutkoski

#88. I lost a whole continent.
a whole continent from my memory.
unlike all other hyphenated americans
my hyphen is made of blood.
when africa says hello
my mouth is a heartbreak
because i have nothing in my tongue
to answer her.
i don't know how to say hello to my mother.

Nayyirah Waheed

#89. To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Bertolt Brecht

#90. 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

#91. I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

Celia Green

#92. I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.

Jim Parrack

#93. I suspect that both astronomers were, yet again, bending over backwards to be polite: theologians have nothing worthwhile to say about anything else; let's throw them a sop and let them worry away at a couple of questions that nobody can answer and maybe never will.

Richard Dawkins

#94. I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#95. I hope it is nothing serious. On the other hand, I must also say that we business people, luckily or unluckily, however one looks at it, very often simply have to overcome a slight indisposition for business reasons.

Franz Kafka

#96. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants.

Jen Lancaster

#97. I'd have to say Sunset Salsa. Nothing against Honey Lime, but it's for losers.

Jim Gaffigan

#98. I don't, as my mom would say, sweat the small stuff in our relationship. Because when I think of day-to-day irritations that you might have with the one you love, they're nothing compared to the bigger task at hand.

Michelle Obama

#99. I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

Alex Rocco

#100. I think initially it's terrifying because going into a show where, you know, "Oh, I'm going to be on stage for two hours, I have no lines to memorize, I have nothing really prepared," and actually I say that, the show is not all improvising.

Brian Henson