Nothing Quotes - page 98

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes. (Ellsworth Kelly)
Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have because you're so delighted to be doing something which perhaps has nothing whatever to do with happiness. View quote
Robertson Davies
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. View quote
Robertson Davies
I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing. View quote
Robertson Davies
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. View quote
Martina Navratilova
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events. View quote
George Kubler
Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix. View quote
Conor Oberst
You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault... View quote
Conor Oberst
There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent. (Conor Oberst)
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing. View quote
Joseph Joubert
A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. View quote
Joseph Joubert
That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth. View quote
Peter Greenaway
In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing. View quote
Louis Sachar
There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace. View quote
Irving Kristol
Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good. (Vince Lombardi)
Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex. View quote
Klaus Kinski
Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place? View quote
Alberto Manguel
The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him. View quote
Russell Baker