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Nothing Quotes

Sometimes nothing says the most.

"Nothing" carries surprisingly different tones across this set — frustration with limited consumer protections sits next to warm nostalgia for a cheap, music-filled stretch of life in Paris. For quotes on affection and belonging, see Love quotes.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Quotes by David Steinberg

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

Quotes by David Rubenstein

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

Quotes by David Schwimmer

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

Quotes by David Puttnam

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they're beautiful places that contain a lot...

Quotes by David Quammen

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Quotes by David Rakoff

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Quotes by David Rakoff

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

Quotes by David O. Russell

Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.

Quotes by David Petraeus

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They...

Quotes by David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Quotes by David Morrissey

I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at...

Quotes by David Morse

Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

Quotes by David Nalbandian

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

Quotes by David Newman

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

Quotes by David Mamet

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

Quotes by David Maraniss

The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do...

Quotes by David Milch

I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.

Quotes by David Millar

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

Quotes by David Livingstone

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

Quotes by David Lloyd George

Frequently Asked Questions

What do the "Nothing" quotes on this page cover?
A mix of consumer frustration, nostalgia, and personal reflection - one speaker criticizes Amazon for not doing enough to protect customers, another recalls buying cheap CD collections while living in Paris, and others reflect on identity and contentment.
Is there a quote about consumer protection or companies?
Yes, one quote describes frustration with Amazon, saying the company protects against a small credit card liability but falls short elsewhere, without fully spelling out what's missing in the excerpt shown.
Is there a quote about living abroad?
Yes, one quote recalls nine years spent in Paris starting in '98, remembering wonderful CD collections that could be found there for almost nothing. For more reflections shaped by personal experience, see the Life page.
Does this page include anything about identity or feeling like an outsider?
Yes - one quote reflects on having many fans who are people of color, and on understanding "that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally." The Like page has more reflections in a similar vein.
Is there a simple, upbeat quote here about contentment?
Yes, one quote is just a short, plain statement: "I have nothing to complain about." For more short, feel-good lines, check out the Good page, or browse Love for warmer sentiments.

Other entries turn the word toward feeling like an outsider, or toward a quieter kind of satisfaction with having very little to complain about. Continue with Good quotes for a more upbeat register, or Life quotes for broader reflection.