Nothing Quotes

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

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.