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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 didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

Quotes by Edmund White

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Quotes by Edith Wharton

I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

Quotes by Edith Widder

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

Quotes by Edie Falco

Everybody knows that, in football, anything can happen.

Quotes by Edinson Cavani

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

Quotes by Edith Head

No one needs anything; they have to want it.

Quotes by Edgardo Osorio

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

Quotes by Eddie Van Halen

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

Quotes by Eddie Vedder

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Quotes by Eddy Cue

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

Quotes by Edgar Bergen

No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

Quotes by Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

Quotes by Eddie Marsan

Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.

Quotes by Eddie Redmayne

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

Quotes by Eddie Albert

It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.

Quotes by Eddie Alvarez

I did anything that would get me on the air.

Quotes by Ed Bradley

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Quotes by Earl Weaver

I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

Quotes by Eartha Kitt

I love being in anything that's scary to people.

Quotes by Dylan Minnette

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.