Quotes About Nothing

He waved before she could respond, turning and walking out the door where a guard waited. In her throat a sob married a scream and became nothing.

You've got no time at all, but it seems like you've got forever. You've got nothing to do, but it seems like you've got everything. You make coffee and smoke a few cigarettes; and the hands of the clock have gone crazy on you. They haven't moved hardly, they've hardly budged out of the place you last saw them, but they've measured off a half? two-thirds? of your life. You've got forever, but that's no time at all.

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad.

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what nothing means, and keep on playing.

I know what nothing means, and keep on playing.

Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is "nothing.

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.

NOTHING APPLIES, I print with the magnetized IBM pencil. What does apply, they ask later, as if the word nothing were ambiguous, open to interpretation, a questionable fragment of an Icelandic rune.

Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made.

I know what 'nothing' means, and I keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.

She thought about nothing. Her mind was a blank tape, imprinted daily with snatches of things overheard, fragments of dealers' patter, the beginning of jokes and odd lines of song lyrics.

he was in a museum of immaculate dust - and nothing was exactly gone

I'm afraid of nothing except being bored.

In the end, my father had it right. He called me nothing at all.

Nothing is sacred, and nothing is everywhere, just like God, for whom nothing is only another name.

I'll give you nothing," Sanjay said, "Because you give us nothing, you cannot save us you cannot protect us." We ask nothing from you," Kala said, "But remember the stories you have been told, see that we are also your fathers, participants in your birth, and so we love you.

Someone called actors sculptors in snow. Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

The more I think it over, the more I feel that is is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

As to the one by Roll, I myself was once present at such a scene, complete in every detail, and I think the beauty of his picture is that it expresses such a situation so accurately, though one finds but very few of the details in it. I thought of a saying by Corot, "Il y a des tableaux où il n'y a rien et pourtant tout y est." [There are pictures in which there is nothing and yet everything is in them.]

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

if he lost consciousness still telling me to do nothing, I'd have to let him die. You say yourself he's rational. I have no right to go against his desires. No matter how stupid and wasteful they are.

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.