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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.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Quotes by Richard Powers

Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis...

Quotes by Richard P. Feynman

There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.

Quotes by Richard N. Haass

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Quotes by Richard M. Nixon

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

Quotes by Richard LaGravenese

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

Quotes by Richard LaGravenese

There are so many things that go into a movie that it's amazing that anything gets made anyway.

Quotes by Richard Jenkins

It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.

Quotes by Richard Greenberg

President George W. Bush, in his now-rare public appearances and interviews, still refuses to acknowledge he did anything to help Iran. But it doesn't really matter what he thinks.

Quotes by Richard Engel

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

Quotes by Richard Fleeshman

Natural selection is anything but random.

Quotes by Richard Dawkins

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

Quotes by Richard Burr

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Quotes by Richard Avedon

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

Quotes by Richard Ayoade

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Quotes by Rich Sommer

The reality is that we have a weakened energy infrastructure, and anything above a Category 3 hurricane hitting Puerto Rico would be devastating towards that infrastructure.

Quotes by Ricardo Rossello

I'm definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it's short and good, I'm not going to do anything about it.

Quotes by Rich Brian

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

Quotes by Rex Stout

If I wasn't touring, I wasn't making money. When I got the MacArthur, I could get off that hamster wheel. It meant I didn't have to do anything.

Quotes by Rhiannon Giddens

I don't control anything I create.

Quotes by Rhonda Byrne

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.

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