Top 100 Nothing There Quotes
#1. I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.
Laurie Anderson
#2. I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.
Ayn Rand
#3. My reality is at the end of the dream. When I walk down the road of life, searching for the door that will guide me to my reality, I am merely walking to confirm there is nothing there.
Lionel Suggs
#4. What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that
Brent Weeks
#5. When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there's nothing there. It's just you holding yourself back.
Brad Goreski
#6. I couldn't even picture Mavis's face anymore. It was sad. She was being erased. I wanted to put my finger on her forehead, but there was nothing there.
James Tate
#7. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there ...
Yvon Chouinard
#8. Like is an emotion. Emotions" - he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly - "are like holding water. You open your hand, there's nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.
Karen Marie Moning
#9. I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for.
Sachin Tendulkar
#10. I've been in your skin," he taunted. "I know you inside and out. There's nothing there. Do us all a favor and die so we can start working on another plan and quit thinking maybe you'll grow the fuck up and be capable of something.
Karen Marie Moning
#11. I used to hate my bottom because as a dancer, you're supposed to have nothing there.
Bonnie Langford
#12. Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful ... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.
Gregory Maguire
#13. Hannah looked through her closet of clothes in the same way you keep looking inside an empty fridge. You know there's nothing there, but you look again anyway.
Thomas Amo
#14. You came to this world with nothing, and you will leave this world with nothing. There is nothing to gain or lose. You can only touch everyone and everything with your love.
Debasish Mridha
#15. In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns ... And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#16. There's nothing - there's nothing - as action-packed as 'Hawaii Five-O.'
Michelle Borth
#17. You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there ... You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.
Annie Dillard
#19. Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Victor Hugo
#20. There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
Baron De Montesquieu
#21. Where there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
Ann Brashares
#22. You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
Ajahn Chah
#23. Back to Jak - Why does everyone always want to go back to Jakku? There's nothing there! Sand and junk and rocks and sand and quicksand and sand - I don't get it!
Alan Dean Foster
#24. As she looked around, she realised although she had stayed here many times before, there was nothing there that was truly hers.
Lara Pass
#25. All those cities, all those fields and farms, with nobody, and nothing left alive. Just nothing there. I simply can't take it in.
Nevil Shute
#26. If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a vast blue, Echoless, ignorant
What then?
Stephen Crane
#27. After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach ... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.
Lynn Caine
#28. Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Harold Macmillan
#29. Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.
Andy Warhol
#30. "Let is Roll" is like - well, it was like me thinking of a human being in its purest form. That form being a baby where there's nothing there - well, unless I guess you believe that something comes along attached. It depends on what you believe.
Ladyhawke
#31. I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.
Tim Daly
#32. Most men jump at the chance to give up everything for nothing. There's nothing we're so slapstick with as our own immortal souls.
Ray Bradbury
#33. Ash, ash - -
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there
A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.
Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.
From the poem Lady Lazarus
Sylvia Plath
#34. I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.
Henry Rollins
#35. Q: You told us a moment ago they were dying off pretty fast? A: Yes, sir, the old people are. Q: Is there any special cause for that? A: Nothing; there is no new disease; I don't see anything other than the want of hope.
James Wilson
#36. There is no such thing as doing nothing. There is no such thing as neutral or uninvolved. At every moment, social life involves all of us.
Allan G. Johnson
#37. What I never expected is how much nothing there is afterwords. In life,, he was not nearby. Now he is everywhere I dream and every place I wake. Or if not him exactly, then a nothing so much like him I cannot seem to wish it goodnight.
Jim Moore
#38. GreenHollyWood is a stupid fat guy, saying (I will watch that and I will check that...) and in the end nothing there isn't progress why??
To fat to move!
(It's a black joke, do you get it?)
Deyth Banger
#39. She's like smoke:you think you're seeing her clearly enough,but when you reach for her there's nothing there
Ryu Murakami
#40. You don't build a 100 ft robot out of nothing ... there's rumors and gossip, trace evidence. There's a shadow economy out there, where these things get done.
Austin Grossman
#41. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.
Nick Nolte
#42. In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these subatomic particles, put them in particle accelerators and collide them, quantum physicists discover there's nothing there. There's no one home - no ghost in the machine.
Wayne Dyer
#43. Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.
John Lennon
#44. Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#45. The biggest trap in life consists in achieving illusions after years of hard work and realize that there's nothing there but an empty you.
Robin Sacredfire
#46. I got sick of playing husbands and boyfriends because there was nothing there.
Rick Springfield
#47. I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.
Marion Davies
#48. Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.
Julian Assange
#49. If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.
Michael Dunlop
#50. The Chief smiled. In his eyes, there was no resistance, no remorse, no sadness, no fear, no pain. Nothing. There was no soul
Jennifer Hillier
#52. You're never going to go. Why would you go? It's a disgusting place. It's always wet even when it's dry. There's nothing there. Farmers aren't really people, you know this. They're just necessary, we need somebody to kill cows.
Dylan Moran
#53. Don't waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.
William Shatner
#54. Even if you do nothing, say nothing and be nothing, there will still be many who will criticise you. It is much better to be criticised for success than be condemned for failures because success rids you of the many miseries of life.
Awdhesh Singh
#55. He said nothing; there was no expression on his face at all. His eyelids were hooded, and I could almost feel the way he was slipping back, away, into that place that was his alone.
Alexandra Bracken
#56. There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#57. On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? There is nothing there. It's very odd.
Arthur J. Deikman
#58. Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to.
You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.
Heather Sellers
#59. What's the point of eternal life if one spends it doing nothing? There is none. It's waste of eternity.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#60. He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ease such a pain. He knew because the ache in his heart was as great as hers.
Bette Lee Crosby
#61. Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.
Mark Twain
#62. Can you imagine what I wouldn't risk for you? You can't, because there's nothing. There's bloody nothing - Roarke
J.D. Robb
#63. The old ideals are dead as nails
nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman
sort of ultimate marriage
and there isn't anything else.
D.H. Lawrence
#64. What do you want Phoenix?"
"I'm going away for a while. I wanted to say goodbye." He smiled, but it was empty. There was nothing there.
"Fine, goodbye.
Jessica Shirvington
#65. But when he died, I saw
nothing. There was nothing left to see.
Sarah Ockler
#66. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community where you live ... and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities
Kelly Cutrone
#67. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.
Christopher Tolkien
#68. The centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility
Mark Fisher
#69. Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
David Levithan
#71. You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#72. O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all in the search, all in the anticipation. When it came, there might be nothing there.
Brigid Brophy
#73. Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.
Lou Reed
#74. A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. How can we give if there is nothing there? ... Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.
Marion G. Romney
#76. Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?
Richard Brautigan
#77. There was nothing there but shadows, and I was a shadow. And then I heard your voice.
Clare
#78. You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.
Bernard Goldberg
#79. I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right: there was nothing there.
Noam Chomsky
#80. But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like nothing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom.
Ernest Hemingway,
#81. The kind of eyes you search to find something and only come up with two possibilities: either what's there is so deep you can't see it, or there's nothing there at all.
Rick Yancey
#82. The moment is not over when you have found the right fit in your style. Begin with knowing who you really are and apologize for nothing. There are no mistakes when it comes to personal expression.
Steven Cuoco
#83. The word try, means nothing. There's no such thing as trying to do something. The moment you begin a task, you're doing it. So just finish what you're doing.
La Tisha Honor
#84. Vengeance is a way of clinging to what we have lost. A wedge in the Last Door, and through the crack we can still glimpse the faces of the dead. We strain towards it with all our being, break every rule to have it, but when we clutch it, there is nothing there. Only grief.
Joe Abercrombie
#85. There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
James Stockdale
#86. He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.
A.W. Tozer
#87. The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.
Terry Riley
#88. Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing.
Samuel Beckett
#89. Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What's the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?" "That would be Antarctica," Zia said. "A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins." "Magic penguins?" "Don't ask.
Rick Riordan
#90. They may have reached Everest, okay, but there is nothing there
Osho
#91. Everything becomes ... too late, finally. You know it's going on ... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel ... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield ... finally ... there's nothing there ... save rust; bones; and the wind.
Edward Albee
#92. Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody
a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
Margaret Atwood
#93. I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
Michael Caine
#94. nothing there, except my normal specks of freckles. Dismissing it to my imagination, I grabbed my backpack and headed downstairs to get some breakfast. That's when
Jessica Sorensen
#97. My heart, my lungs, my blood - they've all been checked. I remember one of the doctors almost being disappointed when he showed me the results because he couldn't wait to tell me what smoking was doing to me. But there was nothing there.
Simon Cowell
#98. If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.
Douglas Sirk
#99. What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.
Frederick Lenz
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