Nothing Quotes

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

There is nothing more important in my life than being a father. I will never allow any of my career choices or aspirations to threaten this bond.

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I was hoping for it to be possibly a movie career as I still would like to see that happen. I enjoyed making 200 Motels and did try out for a few things when I lived in LA, but nothing ever happened. I'm still hoping though.

The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.

I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.