#nothin

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#beside #childhood #conjure #fleeting #lake

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#learn #learnt #nothing #only #the only thing

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#important #interesting #nothing #persuade #say

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. ↗

— Dave Barry

#adolescent #embarrassing #more #nothing #parent

A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#alive #attained #brings #building #cannot

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. ↗

— Woody Allen

#eternal #fine #happen #nothingness #you

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#amounted #came #cut #facing #five

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#confusion #equates #idea #new #nothing

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#dismay #finding #finds #flower #heart

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#achieved #give #nothingness #people #ponder