Nothing Quotes

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

For me, words are just words, nothing else.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick and tired of this word in Washington, compromise. This is why nothing ever gets done.

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.