N Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with N. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.”
“Nothing could be more personal than a tape.”
“Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.”
Source: Dead Souls: A Novel
“Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.”
“Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.”
Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition
“Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.”
“Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.”
“Nothing could be without its opposite that was bound up with it. Could space exist in a building without objects that stopped it? Could energy exist without matter, or matter without energy? Matter and energy, the inert and the active, once considered opposites, were now known to be one.”
Source: Strangers on a Train
“Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
“Nothing could better justify the colonizer's privileged position than industry, and nothing could better justify tge colonised 's destitution than his laziness. The mythical potrait of the colonized therefore includes an unbelievable laziness, and that of the colonizer suggests that employing the colonized is not very profitable, thereby authorizing his reasonable wages.”
Source: The Colonizer and the Colonized
“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.”
Source: Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures, 1911-1945
“Nothing could compare to waking up with Nora by my side. I had yearned for this for so long. I blinked my eyes a few times to make sure I was awake and that I wasn’t in a dream. No, no dream. She was very real and exactly where she was meant to be—with me.”
Source: The Bodyguard's Second Chance
“Nothing could compete with the experience of dangling from the rigging tens of feet in the air—fresh sea air in your face—while looking across an infinite plane of shimmering blue water. The vast ocean was an open roadway. An individual invitation to explore.”
“Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.”
Source: Eighth Grade Bites
“Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'”
“Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.”
Source: The Door Into Summer
“Nothing could have appealed more strongly to Miss Wantage's youthful taste, so as soon as she had changed the chip-straw hat for an Angouleme bonnet of white thread-net trimmed with lace, she sallied forth once more with Mr. Ringwood, tripping beside him with all the assurance of one who knew herself to be dressed in the pink of fashion. The Angouleme bonnet most becomingly framed her face; she had taken great pains to comb her curls into modish ringlets; and if the figured muslin gown was less dashing than a certain pomona green silk which Mr. Ringwood had assured her, in some agitation, Sherry wouldn't like at all, no fault could be found with her little blue kid shoes, or her expensive gloves and ridicule, or with the sophisticated sun-shade which she carried to the imminent danger of the passers-by.”
Source: Friday's Child
“Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.”
“Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.”
Source: the World Set Free
“Nothing could have been prevented. But still you know that somehow something wasn't watching. Something let attention lapse, releasing everything that follows, as the weight falls from the air.”
Source: Zig Zag Wanderer: Stories from Here, Stories from There
“Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.”
Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution
“Nothing could have prepared him for this night, and if he survived, nothing would ever live up to it again. Not ten tours of Iraq. Not a hundred lines of cocaine. Death was watching him from every angle and yet he did not care. Jackie knew he was staring into the abyss, and yet he did not flinch.”
Source: Kezia's Crucifixion
“Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.”
Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“Nothing could have survived our life.”
“Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.”
“Nothing could make one responsible but the Responsibilities”
“Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.”
“Nothing could replace the feeling of total devotion from another person.”
Source: Sex with the CEO
“Nothing could stir Eva's passion like a tall, muscular Scotsman disrobing. Lordy, she could watch him stand before her in the nude for hours.”
Source: Rise of a Legend
“Nothing could stop Mississippi.”
Source: The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
“Nothing could touch Will in the void: he knew somehow that he needed poetry, needed the power of his words, but in his jumbled consciousness he could not put one line of a poem with another.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.”
“Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)”
“Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.”
“Nothing creates more metaphysical clarity than a physical crisis. The depth of human despair is often the birthplace of the greatest spiritual triumph. ”
“Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions.”
“Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.”
“Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.”
“Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.”
Source: Disciples of Fortune
“Nothing cures depression like a quality jerk-off session in the bathtub, followed by a jog around the block.”
“Nothing cures like time and love.”
“Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19
“Nothing cuts like a scar. It suddenly comes with beautiful memories and then poisons our mind with sadness.”
“Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.”
“Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.”
Source: The evening colonnade
“Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.”
Source: The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts
“Nothing dazzles like the first time.”
Source: Here One Moment