Top 100 Nothing Special Quotes
#1. I discovered that the real meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with you at all. It is about a very special gift. I want to you tell you about this gift.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#2. I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.
Daniel Radcliffe
#3. The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it.
Seamus Heaney
#4. I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.
Stephen Hopkins
#5. This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."
Jay Leno
#6. The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.
Robert Edwards
#7. All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#8. I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.
Lisa Kleypas
#9. Dear Kitty, Nothing special going on here.
Anne Frank
#10. To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that'll be know for three weeks and then you'll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it'll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it'll be in the world forever.
Michael Jackson
#11. Today I realize that I'm not marrying the one I thought loved me, I'm just Morgan Lewis, the owner of a bakery, a tiny apartment in downtown Atlanta, and a 2012 Camry. Nothing special, just another person walking through town to start her day.
A.M. Willard
#12. You're no help, he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
Neil Gaiman
#13. I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.
Robert Harling
#14. THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE
has nothing to do with melodrama
It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions
I was (am?) not unique but special.
This is why I was an artist
Francesca Woodman
#15. I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Ethan Hawke
#16. I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.
Konrad Lorenz
#17. I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.
Caitlyn Jenner
#18. I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
Clive Barker
#19. Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.
Robbie Fowler
#20. A serial killer's modus operandi could evolve over time, but rarely would he change his signature, an act that often had nothing to do with the way the victim actually died but had more to do with fulfilling some kind of need the killer had.
Virna DePaul
#21. If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.
Rajneesh
#22. The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
Dorothy Parker
#23. I have an opportunity now with some of the projects I've done, i.e. the North Pole and the South Pole, to speak to a larger audience and talk about things that have nothing to do with physical education or special ed.
Ann Bancroft
#24. I need a special-shiny-greeny-stone. I have pressed that button many times, but nothing happens.
Button? Don't you mean 'big-red-flat-pressy-thing?
I most certainly do not. It is a button. I named it after my Aunt Button.
Neil Gaiman
#25. War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.
Edwin Starr
#26. Kindness that is nothing special is the rarest and most honest.
Emily Ruskovich
#27. The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers.
Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so ... ?
The Doctor: What?
Nancy: Nothing.
The Doctor: What?
Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?
Steven Moffat
#29. You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
Alec Sulkin
#30. I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.
Heath Ledger
#31. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers. This gave us confidence even when our best efforts came to nothing.
Yoko Ogawa
#32. He'd do anything, absolutely everything for this man, suck him, kill, kill himself, run away, be something else, anything else, everything just blurred, darkness, a place inside that only held him and Dan. Nobody else, nothing else, no time, no place, no affiliations, no past, no future.
Aleksandr Voinov
#33. But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.
Jonathan Franzen
#34. To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee
#36. While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.
Stephen Richards
#37. Cameron Indoor Stadium is a special place in sports and there's really nothing else out there quite like it. Anytime I'm inside Cameron, I've got memories. Cameron is like Yankee Stadium or the old Boston Garden.
Grant Hill
#38. Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.
Lionel Messi
#39. Everyone was doing that in their own way, rejecting things and moving on. It's just a part of discovering who you are; it's nothing special.
David Byrne
#40. Do good and be a good person because that's just what the Lord expects. There just ain't nothing special about being and doing good. It's what the Lord expects ...
Andrew Galasetti
#41. A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention.
Mother Teresa
#42. With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.
Lisa Marie Presley
#43. Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.
Marcia B. Siegel
#44. This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.
Margaret Atwood
#45. If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#46. Mami said nothing for a while, and then she went into her bedroom. I figured she was going to emerge with my father's Saturday-night special, the one thing of his that she'd kept when he left. To protect us, she claimed, but more likely to shoot my father dead if she ever saw him again.
Junot Diaz
#47. I want to take time for myself, because all my life is ta-ta-ta-ta. So I don't want nothing special, just to breathe. I'd like to work maybe a half day and then take my bicycle and go by the riverside.
Renzo Rosso
#48. Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.
Sarah Winman
#49. There is nothing special about the mare, nothing at all. A fine enough head, good enough bone. As a pony, she is a beauty. As a capall uisce, she is nothing. The girl too, is nothing special - slight, with a ginger ponytail. She looks less afraid than her mare, but she's in more danger.
Maggie Stiefvater
#50. With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have
Mitch Albom
#51. We were nothing special. We were never meant to last. We're friends, remember? Nothing more.
Sibylla Matilde
#52. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Douglas Adams
#53. He was just standing on an ordinary pavement as cars roared behind him, and there was nothing special about it whatsoever except my heart didn't seem to realise. It soared out of my chest and into the sky, a flash of scarlet in all the blue.
Annabel Pitcher
#54. One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.
Bill Rancic
#55. Even if you were Hannibal Lecter himself, around here you're nothing special.
Dia Reeves
#56. I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.
Cecelia Ahern
#57. At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.
Eric Chaisson
#58. It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.
Ricki Lake
#59. Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important thing is how I feel about myself. On the inside, I feel beautiful.
Edward Barbanell
#60. Sarusawa Pond is a very special place, because the Emperor paid it a formal visit when he heard how one of the Palace Maidens had drowned herself there. 1 Thinking of Hitomaro's marvellous words 'her hair tangled as in sleep', there is really nothing I can add.
Sei Shonagon
#61. The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere.
Kim Novak
#62. I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.-Shelby played by Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias
Herbert Ross
#63. Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#64. Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.
George P. Bush
#65. They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.
Bruce Babbitt
#66. Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
Joseph Brodsky
#67. Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas.
Gwendoline Riley
#68. There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#69. De tall, dark vun
dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in.
Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked.
James Patterson
#70. I'm not perfect-looking and I don't say the right things, I'm a little different, nothing really special, but I guess I come across as a little more real to people and that comes through on the screen. I know I look young, but with the right make-up I can look older. I definitely feel older.
Christina Ricci
#71. I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. -Julia Roberts in Steel Magnolias
Julia Roberts
#72. My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.
Shirley Temple
#73. [There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.
Ian McKellen
#74. If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#75. For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year - and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#77. all the time complaining at me that she could have had a career dancing topless at the Orbital Grill and Rendezvous Parlor. Her and her perky breasts. Yasmin, I told her, all the girls have perky breasts in zero-g, you were nothing special, you're lucky a good man took you away from all that.
Anne McCaffrey
#78. These poor girls are just bad impersonators. They look cheap, really. There's nothing special about them. They are just reaching out to get noticed. They don't want to be invisible anymore. They don't want to get lost in crowds.
James W. Bodden
#79. I know a lot of things, Mathilda. I have gazed through space telescopes into the heart of the galaxy. I have seen a dawn of four hundred billion suns. It all means nothing without life. You and I are special, Mathilda. We are alive.
Daniel H. Wilson
#80. A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity on a square yard of space.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#82. I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.
Edward Burns
#83. I was like a turd inside someone who'd accidentally swallowed an engagement ring: I was nothing, yet I carried something uniquely special.
Alissa Nutting
#84. He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing
Mary Robison
#85. I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
Richard Dawkins
#86. Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.
Rajneesh
#87. There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.
Chuck Palahniuk
#88. Isn't it worth taking a chance? I never thought so in the past, but i can honestly say now that i'd rather have a few minutes of extraordinary with you than a lifetime of nothing special without you.
Kimberly Raye
#89. When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
Yann Martel
#90. Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#91. Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special.
Lisa Kleypas
#92. I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.
Jamie Oliver
#93. There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.
Gustav Klimt
#94. There is nothing as special as watching greatness.
Sean Astin
#95. There's nothing too interesting about me, I'm just a dude that draws, I know there's nothing special about me that people would be standing in awe in front of me.
Marko Djurdjevic
#96. I think you're really nice"
"I'm nothing special." it's not a lament. More a statement.
Elise Valmorbida
#97. There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special.
Michael Moritz
#98. There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.
Michael Pollan
#99. You've got to admit that you live at the center of a vortex that seems to funnel nothing but trouble your way." ~FBI Special Agent Clive Poole to Maggie Mae Castro
Beth Yarnall
#100. The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.
Ashly Lorenzana
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