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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.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

Quotes by Terence Stamp

Don't have to do anything extra, don't have to put any S's on our chests, capes on our backs. We just have to do our job and do our job well.

Quotes by Teddy Bridgewater

I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.

Quotes by Ted McGinley

When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it.

Quotes by Ted Dwane

I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

Quotes by Taylor Hawkins

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

Quotes by Tavi Gevinson

My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.

Quotes by Taye Diggs

I'm not that cool or anything.

Quotes by Tash Sultana

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

Quotes by Tate Taylor

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Quotes by Tao Lin

I'd do anything to help veterans.

Quotes by Tammy Duckworth

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.

Quotes by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I think these are terrible times to be anything in.

Quotes by Swoosie Kurtz

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

Quotes by Suzanne Vega

The conversation has become so divisive now on all types of immigration reform that it is really hard to move anything.

Quotes by Suzan DelBene

I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

Quotes by Suzan-Lori Parks

I read the script. If I like it, I would do anything I am asked to.

Quotes by Sushant Singh Rajput

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

Quotes by Susan Wiggs

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

Quotes by Susan Orlean

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.