Top 100 Quotes About Nothing To Do
#1. In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.
Evan Osnos
#2. Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the worlds resources will be negotiated.
Ottmar Edenhofer
#3. If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business ... they just gesticulate a little bit more.
Christian Bale
#4. If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson
#5. If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it's condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don't have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.
Richard Bach
#6. And for the first time in his life Peter understood what the opposite of lost was: that it had nothing to do with maps or directions or staying on course; that it was, in fact, nothing more than being found.
Jennifer E. Smith
#7. Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do.
Henry Mintzberg
#8. Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.
Georges Bataille
#9. Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.
Haruki Murakami
#10. Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.
Ralph Lauren
#11. The best heroes always have scars. If they didn't, the heroine would have nothing to do. It's her job to help the hero let all that stuff go in order that her man can be strong enough to fight on but when he's with here's free to just breathe.
Kristen Ashley
#12. The kundalini of the supraconscious has nothing to do with the shushumna. That light comes down, from the crown center and has nothing to do with the opening. It descends and inundates.
Frederick Lenz
#13. It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.
Chris Murray
#14. Lo pitched Superheroes & Scones to his father as a marketing strategy for Halway Comics. But I know the idea has nothing to do with his company. What he did was buy me something of my own, something I could look forward to after college. He found me happiness ...
Krista Ritchie
#15. If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
Anton Chekhov
#16. A curious world isn't it? We think we meet people by chance when chance has nothing to do with it.
Galen Beckett
#17. I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with nothing to do but write.
Bernhard Schlink
#18. Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
Tina Turner
#19. It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.
Nicolas Cage
#20. I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.
Nan Goldin
#21. If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.
Anjelica Huston
#22. Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.
Wes Fesler
#23. Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon's location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger.
Hui-Neng
#24. Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#25. Him pushing me away had nothing to do with Alex or with me. It was because of him, because of how he believed he deserved nothing more than punishment.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#26. Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.
John Benjamin Hickey
#27. Never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.
Swami Vivekananda
#28. This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. Love has nothing to do with what you're looking at and everything to do with who's looking.
Jodi Picoult
#30. Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?
David Finkel
#31. The secret to Traffic has nothing to do with Traffic and everything to do with Conversion and Economics.
Steven Daar
#32. I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
Sam Taylor-Wood
#33. Being good has nothing to do with being a Boy !!. Better is the latter!
Nelson Jack
#34. I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.
Roger Stone
#35. The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.
Donald Barthelme
#36. The sex tape rumor had nothing to do with me, that's why it's so weird. It's like, if you have a sex tape, that's up to you. I want nothing to do with it.
Heidi Montag
#37. A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.
Anne Fletcher
#38. Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics ... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace ... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.
Rob Bell
#40. An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.
John J. Sirica
#41. A selfie has nothing to do with ego. It is a constant search for perfection.
Chloe Thurlow
#42. But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.
Gregory Harrison
#43. Actually, I'm extremely dissatisfied with being who I am. It's nothing to do with my looks or abilities or status or any of that. It simply has to do with being me. The situation strikes me as grossly unfair.
Haruki Murakami
#44. Our mouths fit together so perfectly. Every time we kiss, I fall even more in love with him, and it has nothing to do with sex or lust. It's him. His closeness and his scent and the way he soothes me.
Sarina Bowen
#45. As I got older, I had a bunch of friends that were various teen stars. I've always known people in the spotlight and people who just grew up in L.A. and had nothing to do with the industry. It's not a glamorous thing to me. It's just a different type of business.
Troian Bellisario
#46. I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?
Stephen Baldwin
#48. The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
Zaha Hadid
#49. Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.
Julius Charles Hare
#50. Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.
William J. Clinton
#51. That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film.
Clemence Poesy
#52. There's no scandal involved," she said airily. "I have no connection with you whatsoever. I have nothing to do with you. You are a thimble filled with water next to my ocean. You are a grain of sand to my beach. You are a tiny star in the sky. You're nothing to me.
Karen Ranney
#53. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)
George Orwell
#54. The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
Cat Stevens
#55. Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
Rajneesh
#56. Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever.
Nelson Mandela
#57. Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
#58. Being best at things has nothing to do with talent; it is all about self - discipline and commitment.
M.F. Moonzajer
#59. Heaven has no place for the erroneous belief that Christ died because we are worth it. Christ's death in our place had nothing to do with our worth but with the depths of our sin, the demands made by God's justice, and His eternal glory.
Dave Hunt
#60. Your dominion has nothing to do with a negative person's opinion. Flee from people who only hung on passport-size dreams and you'll see your bigger picture! Go for the big one!
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S., but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.
Martin Heidegger
#63. Gossip spreads because people have nothing to do! Get yo life chile!
Toni Mariani
#64. It's because they don't understand good sex has nothing to do with equality.
Nic Kelman
#65. No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
George Orwell
#66. Worthless. Stupid. These are the words I grew up hearing. They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak. And then there's nothing to do but run harder and fill myself with other words ...
Jennifer Niven
#67. Gay marriage and who should be on a football team have nothing to do with each other.
Tony Dungy
#68. She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
Cees Nooteboom
#69. Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
Will.i.am
#70. In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
Camille Paglia
#71. When we hurt for somebody, it's almost always related to our own emotions, with nothing to do with the other person. Sounds selfish, but it's true; and life is less complicated when we give in to the truth.
Vanessa Garden
#72. It has nothing to do with the book; it has everything to do with the story.
David A. Dutcher
#73. My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.
Emayatzy E. Corinealdi
#74. The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Robert Fulghum
#75. It's good to be bored in the car, I always tell him. Spend some time with just yourself and your thoughts and nothing to do. How else will you learn who you are?
Lauren Graham
#76. Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
Theophile Gautier
#77. Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.
Bernie Sanders
#78. All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me, since the day I was born.
Holly Hood
#79. I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important.
Lana Del Rey
#80. The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.
Ken Starr
#81. Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money.
Christian Finnegan
#82. Some people just carry heavy hearts and more often than not it has nothing to do with you.
Nikki Rowe
#83. By the way," Aiden said casting me a long look that had me totally forgetting the seriousness of our mission. "You look damn good in a Sentinel uniform."
A hot flush that had nothing to do with embarrassment spread over me. "So do you."
"I know.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#84. When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?
Cormac McCarthy
#85. Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.
Marla Gibbs
#86. Spiritual fatherhood has nothing to do with power or control. It is a fatherhood of compassion.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#87. I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.
Woodrow Wilson
#88. What your body looks like has nothing to do with how well your brain works!
Sharon M. Draper
#89. I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.
Joe Mantello
#90. I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I had been trying to hold too many things together that were meant to fall apart.
Pete Dexter
#91. Today I have nothing to do except sing the songs of peace.
Debasish Mridha
#92. It was encouraging to see that she sometimes got things wrong. Tyler's persistence had nothing to do with the accident. She didn't seem to understand the appeal she held for the human boys at the high school. Did she not see the appeal she had for me, either?
Stephenie Meyer
#93. Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.
Coco J. Ginger
#94. The closing of our earthly eyes is such a simple event. The shedding of the physical body does not solve the fundamental problems of enlightenment, just as changing ones clothes has nothing to do with the deep questions of life and destiny.
Andre Luiz Moreira
#95. From then on, I vowed, I would never say anything negative about a woman's appearance. it had nothing to do with them as a person and it wasn't something they could easily change. If I didn't want looks to matter, I would have to stop talking and acting as if they did.
Mara Wilson
#96. Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.
Andy Warhol
#97. Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Steve Jobs
#98. I have a lot of frustration with religion, organized religion, because it's man-made, because it's man-regulated. And it has nothing to do with my relationship with God.
Vera Farmiga
#99. I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence." I continued. "The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.
Rasmenia Massoud
#100. The White House announced that it has rejected several petitions to legalize marijuana. They say it has nothing to do with politics. It's just that they can't accept a petition that was written on a crumpled up Funyuns bag.
Jimmy Fallon
