Quotes with nothing

Quotes 441 till 460 of 1874.

  • John D. Rockefeller I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Bryan Batt I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Dudley Nichols I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Maynard Keynes I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Busy Philipps I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Dustin Hoffman I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
    Dustin Hoffman
    American actor and director (1937 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adam Faith I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
    Adam Faith
    English teen idol, singer, actor and financial journalist (1940 - 2003)
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  • Oliver Cromwell I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Samuel Johnson I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Butler Yeats I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Lord George Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Gordon Byron I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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  • Noel Coward I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
    Noel Coward
    British writer (1899 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Anna Held I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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