Nothing Quotes

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.