Quotes of: Nothing Keyword

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

The Lowland

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

Little Women

What shall you do all your vacation?’, asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg.

Little Women

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

Lexicon

It's a weapon, I understand?" "In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is.

Marvel 1602

I think I possess because I do not try to give, Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

Mount Analogue

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Madame Bovary

The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.

Madame Bovary

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

Macbeth

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

Macbeth

I've stopped talking because there's really nothing left to say and there's this piercing sort of pain where my heart is.

Mockingjay

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

Slammed

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.

Sunshine

I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.

SPAN

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

Splendor

Love has nothing to do with marriage or one's marital status... love is immortal, love is forever, and love is age-less.

Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.

Selected Poems

I’m not sitting around doing nothing. I’m busy petting the cat. Why hasn’t anybody told the philosophers that this is the meaning of life? 

Sleepwalking is restercise