Nothing Quotes

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.