Top 100 Nothing Better Quotes
#1. But that was civilisation, so far as Logen could tell. People with nothing better to do, dreaming up ways to make easy things difficult.
Joe Abercrombie
#2. Whatever you think you do well, do it. There is nothing better than feeling gratified.
Michael J. McManus
#3. Nothing better in the world than getting a job the day after your ass gets canned.
James S.A. Corey
#4. An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
Oliver Herford
#5. The pedicure is beside the point - the rub is all I care about. And not just my feet, my calves and thighs. There is nothing better, except maybe a scalp massage.
Amy Landecker
#6. The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.
Mary MacLane
#7. She seems somewhat morose and out of sorts. Do you beat her often?'
'I must admit that I do not.'
'There is the answer! Beat her well; beat her often! It will bring roses to her cheeks! There is nothing better to induce good cheer in a woman than a fine constitutional beating.
Jack Vance
#8. Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
Seneca The Younger
#9. Running my fingers into his thick hair, I wallow in the strength and heat surrounding me before he pulls away, giving me such a happy smile it makes my heart rattle inside my chest. There's nothing better in this whole world than to be held in someone's loving stare. A stare they reserve for you.
Poppet
#10. At the beginning of a new year, many people have nothing better to do than to make a list of bad deeds and resolve from now on - how many such "from-now-ons" have there already been! - to begin with better intentions, but they are still stuck in the middle of their paganism.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#11. The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.
Tilda Swinton
#12. To love
to fall
is not a question. To touch
to kiss
to speak
those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk. Somewhere in between, lies.
David Levithan
#13. Suzanne Sugarbaker of Designing Women was so right when she said, "There's just nothing better in life than to ride around on the back of a convertible with a crown on your head." Words to live by.
Jill Conner Browne
#14. There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.
Paula Deen
#15. Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better.
Robin Wright
#17. The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!
Karen Magnussen
#18. For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.
Bob Newhart
#19. All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles ... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing ... better than to follow nature.
Caravaggio
#20. Having nothing better to do, meandered off to a coffee shop and sat facing each other for a couple of hours, neither of them talking much but each coming to the general conclusion that the other was a person rather like himself ...
Ryu Murakami
#21. I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.
Soulja Boy
#22. I wanted to freeze
in the moment in my mind
forever
because there's nothing better
than flutters of the heart
Lisa Schroeder
#23. To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
Bobby Vinton
#24. For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.
Michael Owen
#25. For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.
Jandy Nelson
#26. 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
#27. This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#28. Nothing beats performing live. For me, there's nothing better.
Kate Brown
#29. Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
Adam Christopher
#30. Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.
Harry Patch
#31. There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.
Condoleezza Rice
#32. It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.
George Wald
#35. I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
Ronald Reagan
#36. nothing better than letting a man hold you, having him make you feel safe and protected.
C. Gockel
#37. I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#38. Before the cook arrived when she stood in a space no wider than a bench is long, back behind and to the left of the milk cans. Working dough. Working, working dough. Nothing better than that to start the day's serious work of beating back the past.
Toni Morrison
#39. There's nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.
William Goyen
#40. Nothing better cements the false self than one's Facebook page.
Chris Matakas
#41. When sex is good theres nothing better, when its bad its not bad.
Bill Maher
#42. If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
Herman Melville
#43. Somewhere in the night there were cries of grief. With nothing better to do, Billy shuffled in their direction. He wondered what ragedy so many had found to lament out of doors.
Kurt Vonnegut
#44. There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.
Henry David Thoreau
#45. When Nixon went into New Hampshire, he was viewed by the pros as just another of these stubborn, right-wing waterheads with nothing better to do.
Hunter S. Thompson
#46. There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.
Craig Claiborne
#47. LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.
Richard Harris
#48. There is nothing better than being a parent. It is the most challenging job one could ever ask for. I love being a mom and I love being a friend to my children as well.
Marlee Matlin
#49. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Oscar Wilde
#50. I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
Parker Posey
#51. I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that.
Trip Lee
#52. There's nothing better in life than being a parent, there's nothing more beautiful in life than women, there's nothing more precious in life than time, and there's nothing in life more magical than life itself.
Ben Tolosa
#53. Kids are always infatuated with the action in martial arts films. Let me tell you, there is nothing better for kids than the arts. That is what kept me straight and decent. I always had a place to go. That was the dojo. I always had something to look forward to doing.
Thomas Ian Griffith
#55. When I've got nothing better to do, I look down the league table to see how Everton are getting along
Bill Shankly
#56. There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
Dan O'Brien
#57. I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.
Amy Weber
#58. I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.
David Walliams
#59. For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
Samuel Beckett
#60. And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.
Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#61. I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.
Sam Amidon
#62. I'm very laid back, easy. There's nothing better in life than seeing your kids do well.
Caitlyn Jenner
#63. If I can't sing them myself, there's nothing better than writing songs for other people and watching them be performed. It's kind of more thrilling than doing it yourself.
Kathleen Hanna
#64. It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
Robin Wright
#65. There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.
David O. Russell
#66. There's nothing better than keeping fit. It gives me energy and helps me think more clearly.
Trevor Donovan
#67. There's nothing worse than writing. There's nothing better than writing. It's like the man you hate to love, love to hate and never really come to terms with any of the feelings.
Coco J. Ginger
#68. There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
Mary Oliver
#69. Down below the mines and sea ooze and fake fossil bones put there by a Creator with nothing better to do than upset archeologists and give them silly ideas.
Terry Pratchett
#70. I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.
Victoria Lamb
#71. There's nothing better than seeing people you know being able to work and support their families. Knowing you have a little hand in it? Now, that really makes you feel good.
Kid Rock
#72. I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.
Tamara Tunie
#73. We'd all agreed that we'd outgrown jumping rope, but Shady had given me such a nice gift of a skipping rope, and when there's nothing better to do, I guess you go back to what once felt good.
Clare Vanderpool
#74. Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.
G.K. Chesterton
#75. There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
C.S. Lewis
#76. I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it.
Sarah Polley
#77. Screw the rules, damn the consequences, and just love. Love until it kills you, because there's nothing better worth dying for.
Karen Amanda Hooper
#78. A wise person can want nothing better from life than to pay back the wrong that has been done him.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#79. There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
Ernest Istook
#80. There's nothing better for the inside of a person then than the outside of a horse.
Winston Churchill
#81. There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.
Mike Nichols
#82. He shot back the drink, swallowing his thoughts along with it. Dreaming was for people with nothing better to do.
Marissa Meyer
#83. For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.
Christophe Lautrette
#84. I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.
Sergei Prokofiev
#85. Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.
Chris Klein
#86. I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.
Elizabeth Vargas
#87. People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.
Madonna Ciccone
#88. I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.
Patsy Kensit
#89. 'Manhattan Love Story' has a very special place in my heart for many reasons. We were very sad to see it go. It brought me to New York, and there's nothing better than getting to go to work and fall for Analeigh Tipton every day.
Jake McDorman
#90. Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
Anton Chekhov
#91. I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.
Kevin Pietersen
#92. I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
Jose Saramago
#93. The sweet smile of a young woman. There is nothing better in the world. It is worth more than salt. Something in us sickens and dies without it. I am sure of this. Such a simple thing. How strange. How wonderful and strange.
Patrick Rothfuss
#94. I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
Joan Jett
#95. I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.
Derek Blasberg
#96. There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it.
Jennie Finch
#97. Honestly, do these people have nothing better to do than engage in stupid mindless speculation about people they don't know?
Sophie Kinsella
#98. I think that the best profession or the best thing to do is to be a public servant. I mean there's nothing better than working for the people - for the common people and being a public servant, and I have seen this.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#99. Attend your children's athletic events. There's nothing better than watching your child succeed while absolutely loving the opportunity to play in front of you.
Robert Cheeke
#100. For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
Magdalena Neuner
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