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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.

I don't look back at anything. I look forwards.

Quotes by Nigel Farage

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

Quotes by Nido Qubein

For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.

Quotes by Nicole Appleton

I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government.

Quotes by Nicola Sturgeon

I'd do anything with Tom Courtenay.

Quotes by Nicola Walker

I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.

Quotes by Nick Nurse

I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.

Quotes by Nick Frost

When I was in college, I wasn't in a fraternity or anything. I always wanted to jump around to all different types of cliques.

Quotes by Nick Gehlfuss

I'm not going to pretend to be anything I'm not.

Quotes by Nicholas Soames

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

Quotes by Nicholas Hoult

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

Quotes by Nicholas Jarecki

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Quotes by Nic Pizzolatto

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

Quotes by Neve McIntosh

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

Quotes by Neneh Cherry

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

Quotes by Neil Young

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Quotes by Neil Young

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

Quotes by Neil Young

With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.

Quotes by Neil Marshall

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

Neil Gaiman

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

Quotes by Neil Gershenfeld

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.