The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
~By Francis I ~
What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
~By Sai Baba ~
There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.
~By Andy Gibb ~
But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.
~By Andrei Platonov ~
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
~By David Hume ~
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
~By Vance Havner ~
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.
~By Eric San ~
Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
~By Alain Resnais ~
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
My private life has nothing to do with my films.
~By Fritz Lang ~
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
~By E. B. White ~
When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching "Ben Hur" at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
~By John Henry Newman ~
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
~By Fred Allen ~
The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.
~By Bindi Irwin ~
Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
~By Theodor Reik ~
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
~By Bob Riley ~
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
~By Plato ~
I find that easier to accept than this all happened out of nothing.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.
~By Francesca Annis ~
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.
~By Eli Wallach ~
In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
~By Loretta Young ~
I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
~By John Ray ~
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
~By E. M. Forster ~
How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?
~By Gregorio M. Sierra ~
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
~By David Chalmers ~
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
~By Edmund Wilson ~
America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
~By Groucho Marx ~
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
~By Lao Tzu ~
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
~By Robert South ~
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
~By Jay Inslee ~
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
~By Jack Osbourne ~
I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.
~By Little Richard ~
Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.
~By Steven Tyler ~
As a songwriter, there's nothing better than winning Song Of The Year. But I couldn't really celebrate, because it wasn't right. Luther wasn't standing next to me, to receive the award.
~By Richard Marx ~
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
~By Richard Attenborough ~
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
~By Herman Melville ~
The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
~By William John Wills ~
Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.
~By George Galloway ~
There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.
~By Bobby Scott ~
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
~By Max Beckmann ~
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
~By Moliere ~
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
~By Ted Rall ~
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
~By Ray Knight ~
I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.
~By Richard Price ~
The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
~By Georg Buchner ~
There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
~By Gloria Gaynor ~
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Quite frankly, I think nothing could do more to immediately bolster national security then enabling us to produce more oil and gas here at home at a price consumers could afford.
~By Phil Gramm ~
Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
~By Josh Holloway ~
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
I did nothing but work. I made work my hobby. I was lucky that way.
~By Mary Roebling ~
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
~By Michael Servetus ~
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
~By I. F. Stone ~
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
~By Voltaire ~
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
~By Billy Graham ~
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
~By Boozoo Chavis ~
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
~By Red Grange ~
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.
~By Georges Bernanos ~
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.
~By Greta Garbo ~
One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
~By Ace Frehley ~
I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
~By Winston Churchill ~
When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.
~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
If nothing else, I have money.
~By Bjork ~
A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.
~By Susannah York ~
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
~By Gordon Getty ~
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
~By George Washington ~
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
~By Han Suyin ~
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
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