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Nothing Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but…
- Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.
- Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important…
- The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with…
- To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot…
- The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly…
- He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and…
- Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.
- the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs…
- He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.
- Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen…
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- 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
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong