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Almost Nothing Quotes

What's left unsaid, unspent, or untouched by daily life.

These almost nothing quotes range from someone drawing a line around their private life despite public scrutiny to a reflection on how little of one unusual career path could apply to anyone else's advice. Our Good quotes cover more honest, grounded reflections.

The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't...

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.

Quotes by William Joyce

My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families...

Quotes by Will Hobbs

There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.

Quotes by Warren Beatty

Character Quotes

There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

Quotes by Tom Freston

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in 'Sports Illustrated.' I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.

Quotes by Steve Rushin

The number of jobs created under President Barack Obama's stimulus turned out to be fewer than the number we would have had if the government had done nothing - according to the Obama administration's own analysis. So we got $9...

Quotes by Stephen Moore

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.

Quotes by Richard Engel

I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.

Quotes by Richard Bonynge

Children Quotes

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

Quotes by Patrick Stewart

There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

Quotes by Patrick Lencioni

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

Quotes by Mira Nair

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to...

Quotes by Matthew Lillard

Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

Quotes by Marc Faber

Education Quotes

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

Quotes by Kristin Bauer van Straten

There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.

Quotes by Julian Fellowes

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a...

Quotes by Jon Landau

In the digital world of today, one can say almost nothing is local.

Quotes by John W. Henry

Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.

Quotes by James Laughlin

Good Quotes

American students arrive at college knowing almost nothing about history, literature, art, or philosophy.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the first quote say about privacy?
It acknowledges that almost nothing has been left unsaid publicly, while insisting there's still plenty the speaker chooses to keep private.
Why does one quote hesitate to give advice?
It explains that the speaker's own path has been so unusual that almost nothing from their experience would reasonably apply to someone else's situation.
Is there a quote about physical labor?
Yes, one recalls a first job picking fruit in Emmett, Idaho, alongside workers from Mexico who kept almost none of their pay for themselves.
Does this topic mention travel?
It does — one quote argues that almost nothing distracts from everyday problems as effectively as being immersed in a new place.
How does this topic connect to Character quotes?
The reflections on restraint and privacy tie in well with our Character quotes, which explore personal values more directly.

One recalls farm laborers who kept almost none of their pay for themselves, sending paychecks elsewhere, while another finds that almost nothing clears the mind like traveling somewhere new. See our Character or Education quotes for more.