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Nothing Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof…
- Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth…
- I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It…
- You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'…
- Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be…
- Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the…
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
- A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if…
- I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I…
- There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
- Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . .…
- Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface,…
- Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his…
- But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.
- Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall,…
- Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
- This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.
- You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
- Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
- ...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.
- I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, than…
- The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor…
- Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by…
- You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
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