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Quotes About Nothing

nothing and then selling it at triple cost to buyers in Wyandanch
~ James McBride
It is not nothing to ask someone holding an election certificate in the United States Senate to provide his or her vote.
~ Mike Lee
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
~ Stephen Hawking
God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.
~ William Godwin
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
~ Aeschylus, Agamemnon
A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
~ Itzhak Perlman
The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is 'body' and that which is not 'body' is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
~ Thomas Hobbes
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest
~ Thomas Jefferson
My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.
~ Thomas Watson
After a couple bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothin', you know?
~ John Prine
The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.
~ Dizzy Dean
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
~ Dodie Smith
Sve se na koncu svede na ništa.
~ Norton Juster
The boys have all laid in enough footwear to last 'em ten years; and there's nothing doing in the shoe store but dolcy far nienty.
~ O. Henry
Jeg er bare en ganske alminnelig mann som ikke kan forandre noe som helst jeg
~ Ole Lund Kirkegaard
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
There are moments we return to. We are in theme. We rest there and there is nothing else.
~ Colum McCann
Get your hat, he said. - You wish me to come? - Yes, if you have nothing better to do.
~ Conan Doyle
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the beginning always was nothing. The novae exploding silently. In total darkness. The stars, the passing comets. Everything at best of alleged being. Black fires. Like the fires of hell. Silence. Nothingness. Night. Black Suns herding the planets through a universe where the concept of space was meaningless for want of any end to it. For want of any concept to stand it against.
~ Cormac McCarthy