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Nothing Quotes by Daniel Handler
- Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around…
- To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.
- There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of…
- It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
- As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I…
- And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a…
- The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if…
- Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend together,"…
- Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you…
- The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
- I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time,…
- An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead…
- The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow…
- To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After…
- The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a…
- ...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.
- So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.
- Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on…
More Nothing Quotes
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe