I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
A world where nothing is had for nothing.
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Nothing in my background has anything to do with films. In that sense, I am a complete outsider.
I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.
There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge anyone.
I remember thinking the Nineties were uncool: 'I landed in the generation where nothing happens.'
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
I didn't really know what to expect. I had been told about the scale of Cannes, but nothing could have prepared me for just how many people would turn out for our photo calls or for the opening ceremony.
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.
I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.
