Quotes About Somethingness

#1. Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Mark Strand

#2. ARE THE NOTHINGNESS THAT CREATES THE SOMETHINGNESS.

Lee Vickers

#3. The writer doesn't write for the reader. He doesn't write for himself, either. He writes to serve ... something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness - those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

Joy Williams

#4. His ship was powered, and the Martian war effort was powered, by a phenomenon known as UWTB, or the Universal Will to Become. UWTB is what makes universes out of nothingness - that makes nothingness insist on becoming somethingness.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. To new beginnings. To the pursuit of ... somethingness.

Cecelia Ahern

#6. All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.

Jasper Fforde

#7. The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

Frederick Lenz

#8. But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.

Joel Hodgson

#9. Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock its key.

Anthony Doerr

#10. House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

Dennis Cardoza

#11. It's funny. I don't think boys even know how to hold a grudge.

Jenny Han

#12. If you can get an audience to identify themselves with a character, they will subconsciously feel that their own lives are in danger. People tend to pay attention in situations like that. I think fear is the easiest, and most visceral, emotion to activate in an audience.

David Hayter

#13. He trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.

Devon Monk

#14. The smell of life." "The smell of farts.

Lev Grossman

#15. It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.

Tom Rath

#16. Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Carrie Fisher

#17. She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#18. Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

William Arthur Dunkerley

#19. Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

Mike Birbiglia

#20. Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.

Steve Jobs

#21. I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

Brian Celio