Quotes About Nothing

Looking over the cliffs, even at a safe distance, she had felt dizzy and breathless. She could see the waves breaking on the boulders below, but couldn't really believe in them. It was like staring down into nothing. She'd thought she was at the end of the world and there was nowhere else to go. Now, sitting opposite Robert Isbister, she had the same feeling of panic.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Now air is the cause and spirit of every life and motion in the world, be it in flesh or in any of the vegetables; all whatever is hath its life from the air, and nothing whatsoever that moveth and is in this world can subsist without air.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.

I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.

My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

Is it possible to imagine an infinite intelligence dwelling for an eternity in infinite nothing?

Love never comes but at love's call, And pity asks for him in vain; Because I cannot give you all, You give me nothing back again.

I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

It was just curiosity of course, nothing stronger. Perfectly natural.

The break is forever chipping away new labyrinths toward the place where the human soul goes to feed when nothing else will let it eat.

I? I am nothing, replied the other. A leaf caught in a whirlpool, perhaps. A feather in the wind...

Simple curiosity, more than suspicion even, required that I search these faces for reactions, clues, indications-the faces that I knew better than any others, to the limits of my understanding such things. And of course they told me nothing.

I don't make any claims to answer any questions that science cannot answer, and I have tried very carefully within the text to define what I mean by "nothing" and "something." If those definitions differ from those you would like to adopt, so be it. Write your own book. But don't discount the remarkable human adventure that is modern science because it doesn't console you.

Nothing happened. Nothing at all. Not even a click or a whir or a cough. Turning the key was the same thing as not turning it. Inert. Dead as a doornail. Dead as the deadest thing that ever died.

Kant did not preach Nazism. But, on a fundamental level and for the first time, he flung at Western man its precondition: "Du bist nichts" ("You are nothing").

You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing.

I've had nothing yet,'Alice repilied in an offended tone, 'so I can't takr more.' 'You mean you can't take less.' said the Hatter: ' it's very easy to take more than nothing.