Nothing Quotes

What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?

The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

I asked, “What are words?” The tenzo said, “One, two, three, four, five.” I asked again, “What is practice?” “Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.”

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he’s overcharging you.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You’ll know.