Logo - Feel The Words

Anything Quotes

Sometimes anything is exactly nothing.

These quotes use the word "anything" to mark limits or surprises - a pitch with no real movement behind it, a contract that blocks further work, and total unfamiliarity with a story someone assumed was common knowledge. Related reading in About Quotes.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Quotes by Alex Kapranos

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

Quotes by Alex Kapranos

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

Quotes by Alec Baldwin

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Quotes by Alec Baldwin

I wanted to be loved by my father. I could do anything to be loved by my father.

Quotes by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Balotelli is not my role model. I like him as a player very much, and he is very talented. He could have been at the very top, but my style does not have anything with him.

Quotes by Aleksandar Mitrovic

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

Quotes by Alana Stewart

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

Quotes by Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Quotes by Alanis Morissette

It's quite nice to switch off and not see anything to do with cricket.

Quotes by Alastair Cook

In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C. S. Forester - anything with battleships!

Quotes by Alastair Reynolds

I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot.

Quotes by Alastair Reynolds

I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.

Quotes by Albert Brooks

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Albert Einstein

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

Quotes by Alan Stern

I have this thing for anything Italian.

Quotes by Alan Taylor

I was never trained for anything.

Quotes by Alan Ladd

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

Quotes by Alan Moore

The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

Quotes by Alan Parsons

The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.

Quotes by Alan Perlis

Frequently Asked Questions

What different 'anything' statements appear in these quotes?
They range from a baseball comment about an easy pitch to hit, to a defense of Jane Austen against a cliche label, to being contractually limited in what you can do, to never having heard anything about a particular topic.
Is there a quote about an easy pitch in baseball?
Yes. One quote says, "There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything." For more, see Like quotes.
Is there a quote defending Jane Austen?
Yes - one speaker says they don't think "there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen," pointing out that her earliest champions were "Sir Walter Scott and the Prince Regent." For more, see About quotes.
Is there a quote about being limited by a contract?
Yes. One speaker explains that after shooting 'Deception,' being "under contract with NBC" meant they "can't really do anything." For more, see Just quotes.
Is there a quote about never having heard something before?
Yes - one speaker says, "I'd never heard anything about this at all." For more, see Know quotes.

Another entry pushes back gently against a stereotype, arguing there's nothing inherently shallow about a beloved author's legacy. Browse more in Know Quotes or Just Quotes.