Top 100 Nothing To Quotes
#1. I still do not understand why some people think they mean nothing to anyone; while their simple smile gives unlimited reasons for others to live.
M.F. Moonzajer
#2. I believe that the material doesn't need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with strength of the material.
Shigeru Ban
#3. He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.
George R R Martin
#4. Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
E. M. Forster
#5. Fancy makes me shudder to-night, when all is so black and solemn - " "Let us shudder too. We may know what it is." "It will seem nothing to you.
Charles Dickens
#6. I don't think anybody can be a success who doesn't like what they do. [But it's] no job if it has no challenge; there's nothing to it if there are no problems. The essential thing is liking what you're doing.
Malcolm Forbes
#7. My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#8. I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.
Steven Hatfill
#9. There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.
T. R. Pearson
#10. I remembered my father's speech about what Jack was capable of and wasn't; he'd said, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW MUCH JACK LOVES YOU. I thought about all the girls he'd stopped loving; it was like he had a timer, and at a certain point it buzzed.
Melissa Bank
#11. I will have nothing to do with a bomb! [Response to being invited (1943) to work with Otto Robert Frisch and some British scientists at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.]
Lise Meitner
#12. Healthy bodies make healthy babies so you have nothing to lose!
Heidi Murkoff
#13. Rejections are thin 'cause they really have nothing to say other than, "Sorry, dude, you're screwed." acceptances are thick 'cause they have lots of stuff to say like, "Welcome, dude, you're not screwed, we want you.
Alan Sitomer
#14. And yet I love this false, this worthless man,
With all the passion that a woman can;
Dote on his imperfections, though I spy
Nothing to love; I love, and know not why.
Ephelia
#15. The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. The next time I had nothing to do, I'd have to get a book on testosterone-driven behavior.
Richelle Mead
#17. Colour acts simultaneously with form, but has nothing to do with form.
Georges Braque
#18. I was writing Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.
Joan Baez
#20. Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can't. Because we don't really believe we can die.
Deb Olin Unferth
#21. You don't see him again. Sometimes you worry that he loved you better than any man ever has or will
even if it had nothing to do with you. Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into a cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.
Melissa Bank
#22. The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
Chogyam Trungpa
#23. Creation comes before distribution
or there will be nothing to distribute.
Ayn Rand
#24. I see you in my mind crisp and concise and I will stop at nothing to make the vision reality.
Robert McGinley
#25. Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.
Kelly Preston
#26. There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
Joe Abercrombie
#27. I've got nothing to do today except to drink the beauty of life.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.
Robert Holden
#30. Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.
Sondra Kraak
#31. The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.
Mark Strong
#33. So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick with it. And that is all: contingent and brutal without meaning. There is nothing to be learnt here. No ecstatic forgetting. There is no redemption in the sea.
China Mieville
#34. Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
#35. I am nothing to you. You say I am wilderness. I am. Is that a tremble on your mouth, in your eye? Are you afraid? You should be.
Toni Morrison
#36. Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.
Will Advise
#39. Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
W. H. Auden
#40. I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
Witold Gombrowicz
#41. I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Paul Cezanne
#42. Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.
Paul Auster
#43. Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.
Jeff Wall
#44. Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.
Peter Richmond
#45. I concluded that the best thing for me and for those around me was to want nothing, to be enthusiastic about nothing, to be as unmotivated as possible, in fact, so that I would never again hurt anyone.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.
Simon Gray
#47. It was like I woke up when he was born. It was like he had nothing to do with that night.
Liane Moriarty
#48. Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
May Sarton
#49. Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.
Jessica Simpson
#50. The revolutionary government owes to the good citizen all the protection of the nation; it owes nothing to the Enemies of the People but death.
Maximilien De Robespierre
#52. Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.
Kevin McKenzie
#53. If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.
Bob Hope
#54. I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#55. [On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.
Margot Asquith
#56. No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson ...
Charles Frazier
#57. get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice
Lewis Carroll
#58. Every city has a sex and age which have nothing to do with demography.
John Berger
#59. What you've been through has nothing to do with where you're going.
Leia Shaw
#60. Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?
Mo Ibrahim
#61. They're inventive, I'll grant you. But what I meant was ... I mean ... they've done nothing to deserve it."
"Deserve? They're human. What's deserve got to do with it?
Terry Pratchett
#62. There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.
Jeff VanderMeer
#63. Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.
Karl Marx
#65. Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.
Cardale Jones
#66. Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#67. But believing something to be true has nothing to do with whether it is true.
Marcus J. Borg
#68. He should accept me as I am! says the woman who is too nice.
Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you
madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a
doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.
Sherry Argov
#69. As I spoke, I realized I'd held these words in for so long and so tightly that I felt the space they left empty once released. It was vast enough that I could think of nothing to follow them.
Sarah Dessen
#70. There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
Eleanor Roosevelt
#71. Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.
Rajneesh
#73. It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
#74. Co-opting the conservative line on anti-poverty programs did nothing to halt conservative attacks on anti-poverty programs.
Alex Pareene
#75. There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
Earl Weaver
#76. I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything ... It's not a sign of intelligence ... Nothing to boast about, memory ... that's just how it is ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#77. I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel
John Keats
#78. There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.
Andrew Mitchell
#79. Someone special once told me to dare to dream. For without dreams, we have nothing to look forward to. I'm starting to believe her.
S.L. Scott
#80. Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things."
"But different things can often blend together," said the pine tree. "Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.
Lemony Snicket
#81. The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.
Robin Sharma
#82. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston
#83. His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment.
This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer.
Karen Marie Moning
#84. We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#85. If you have no story you have nothing to live up to, and every day is like a renewal
Brian E. Miller
#86. Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
William Penn
#87. There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
Duke Ellington
#88. I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.
Leontyne Price
#89. You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.
Haruki Murakami
#90. What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
Sam Harris
#91. We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?
John Steinbeck
#92. If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
Charles Dickens
#93. She knew now that no one could be neutral - not anymore - and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need.
Kristin Hannah
#94. The first thing I look for in a woman is warmth-femininity. It's got nothing to do with a pretty face.
Kirk Douglas
#95. Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
Larry McMurtry
#97. I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
George Gordon Byron
#98. If you keep looking, you will find it. It has nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with courage. Be brave.
Jamie Christian Desplaces
#99. Can you two keep from tearing each other's throats out during however long it takes to find Nash?" Lucas's dry tone did nothing to hide the feline amusement in his eyes as he broke into her line of sight. "Or maybe I should be worrying about clothes instead?
Nalini Singh
#100. I think that everyone thought that the Depression like everything else, was for the white-folks, so it had nothing to do with them.
Maya Angelou
