Top 100 Quotes About Nothing To Say
#1. Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.
Louise Penny
#2. While the Bible has nothing to say about how ethnic distinctions came to be, it does have definitive statements about how we are to regard them: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28).
John H. Walton
#3. I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.
Graham Norton
#4. I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.
Emma Donoghue
#5. What happened to us? We go parties now, and we've nothing to say to each other 'til we're fucked. And even then. We spend hours talking about parties from before, things that happened to us once, we spend life retelling life and it's pointless and boring.
Kate Tempest
#6. Forever is composed of nows," she says. I have nothing to say to that; I am just chewing through it when Margo says, "Emily Dickinson. Like I said, I'm doing a lot of reading.
John Green
#7. I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
Damien Hirst
#8. Bonhoeffer knew that when the church stops talking about Jesus, it has nothing to say. And when it assumes dominance, it's not talking about Jesus.
Samuel Wells
#9. I've got nothing to say most of the time.
David Byrne
#10. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.
Hugh MacLeod
#11. It is nothing to say lovely things to someone who expects them, needs them. The beauty is when one who does not expect them comes to believe them - that only happens when the compliments and the love behind them are sincere.
Katherine Reay
#12. I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied.
William Bronk
#13. If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!
Roland Freisler
#14. Burning in a hot tunnel of dismay, my humiliation complete as I shake without reason and stumble over words and have nothing to say about my 'illness' which anyway amounts only to knowing that there's no point in anything because I'm going to die.
Sarah Kane
#15. She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say.
Alice Sebold
#16. The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.
Walter Lippmann
#17. Just when I think I have nothing to say, the characters start to speak. Writing is funny like that.
J.D. Barker
#18. When you have nothing to say,
set something on fire.
Richard Siken
#19. The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
Will Cuppy
#20. You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but ... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.
Amaury Nolasco
#21. Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
W. H. Auden
#22. We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy.
Emil Cioran
#23. I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.
S.J. Watson
#24. As to who among us is a ghost and who not I have nothing to say: it is a question we can only stare at in silence, like a bird before a snake, hoping it will not swallow us.
J.M. Coetzee
#25. It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.
J.B. Albano
#26. I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.
Andre Leon Talley
#27. Some men run out of stories, of conversation, in no time at all. Either so little has happened to them or, more likely, they are incapable of understanding or retaining what has happened to them, and so they soon find themselves with nothing to say. Such a man makes a terrible companion.
John Marsden
#28. I've nothing to say of the sun and world - I see only the torments of man.
Justin Bryant
#29. Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way.
Markus Zusak
#30. Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.
Amy Rogers
#31. Lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say
Roald Dahl
#32. Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
Bill Jay
#33. Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.
Colin Wilson
#34. In these random impressions, and with no desire to be other than random, I indifferently narrate my fact-less autobiography, my lifeless history. These are my Confessions, and if in them I say nothing, it's because I have nothing to say.
Fernando Pessoa
#35. All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.
Jon McGregor
#36. I want to inform them
that I am not silent
because I have nothing to say.
I am silent
because nobody is listening.
Kelsey Sutton
#37. When this is over, the media will lose interest. There'll be nothing to say. It won't fit into a headline anymore. It won't fit into a template.
Robert Pattinson
#39. The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.
Ayn Rand
#40. The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost it's meaning
Jean Baudrillard
#41. waif. They would hear his reedy voice, the one he'd had in the war. He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Worse - he had nothing to say. The crowd
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#42. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence
#43. It's sad but it^s true how society says her life is alredy over. There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say..
Jean-Christophe Grange
#44. The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
#45. 'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
Dick Morris
#46. We had nothing to say to each other; and I was conscious that not only my remarks but my presence was criticized. They wished for the truth, and doubted whether a woman could speak it or be it. I thought this courageous of them; but unsympathetic. I had to remember that one is not full grown at 21.
Virginia Woolf
#47. I saw him [Khizr Khan]. He was, you know, very emotional. And probably looked like - a nice guy to me. His wife, if you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably - maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say.
Donald Trump
#48. She knew every word that had ever been spoken, but she could think of nothing to say that might ease his grief.
Scott Hawkins
#49. Vulgar language," Chan said ... "Always the first and last refuge of the man with nothing to say.
Michael Chabon
#50. He who talks too much really has nothing to say.
Vas Kolovos
#51. I don't tweet - I have nothing to say.
Gina Torres
#52. Back on the ferry, I sip some vodka on the rocks and have a chat with God.
Me: (desperately) What the *&%$# am I going to do?
God:
Me: (surprised) Really? After all those Sundays of being a back up singer for Jesus, you got nothing to say?
God:
Me: (humbly) Help me out here.
Lexis De Rothschild
#53. I like to bring people together so we don't waste opportunities and resources and keep doing the wrong things when we know better. Corporate America makes great things and things that can hurt us. They have to be part of the solutions. There's nothing to say you don't make a profit by doing good.
Teresa Heinz
#54. Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
Lawrence Durrell
#56. There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan Swift
#57. My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
Marilyn Monroe
#58. The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#59. - Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.
I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#60. I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better."
The lady gave a discriminating smile.
"I am afraid there are moments in life when even Beethoven has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst moments.
Henry James
#61. You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.
Jonathan Meades
#62. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
#63. It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.
Alain Badiou
#64. Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
E. O. Wilson
#65. There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist
but I found I had nothing to say.
Victor Borge
#69. It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.
Nathan Fillion
#70. 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
#71. I am the mother of this child. I am the one who carries it in her body. I am the giver of its life. Yet I have almost nothing to say about its coming into the world.
Terry Brooks
#72. The camera is a natural attraction for a politician. And if a camera is here, we're going to be here. And we're going to say something, even if we have nothing to say.
Thad Cochran
#73. I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked.
"Thank you, husband.
Julie Garwood
#74. We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#75. This November there seems to be nothing to say.
Anne Sexton
#76. A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
Billie Joe Armstrong
#77. I watch, nearly shaking with the need to say something and having nothing to say, as she lets a flame incinerate the precious paper to a dusting of ash on the floor.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#78. Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"
Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again.
It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.
Libba Bray
#79. I can't stand every boring, worthless piece of conversation I overhear because they make me wish I could be a part of them, be some nobody girl with nothing to say.
Courtney Summers
#80. You know, the thing is with people who never talk, the thing is you always suppose they're harbouring some enormous secret. But, just possibly, the secret is, they have absolutely nothing to say.
Richard Greenberg
#81. I think you and he need to talk. And once you do, I won't have to worry about being jumped like a felon again."
Blay frowned. "He and I have nothing to say to each other - "
"With all due respect, the ligature marks around my neck would suggest otherwise.
J.R. Ward
#82. Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#83. the trouble was he had nothing to say, but he loved saying it.
Penelope Wilcock
#84. How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#86. I have so much to say that I have nothing to say, because I know it won't be helpful to either of us.
Anonymous
#87. Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt.
Debasish Mridha
#88. In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.
William E. Hordern
#89. You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
#90. I am firmly of the opinion that people who can't speak have nothing to say. It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues ... allow them a language as lousy as their life
William H Gass
#91. People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.
Josh Billings
#92. They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
Zadie Smith
#93. People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
William S. Burroughs
#94. Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.
Yasmin Mogahed
#95. Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.
Adam Levine
#96. The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
Max Beerbohm
#97. The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Marilyn Hacker
#98. I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.
Jamie Bell
#99. Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love.
Perry Brass
#100. Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.
Jasmine Cresswell
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