#nothing

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly. ↗

— John Malkovich

#excuse #great #i #matters #nothing

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.' ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#cooler #i #i can #more #nicer

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ↗

— William James

#effort #means #metaphysics #nothing #obstinate

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#nothing #printed #upon #wise

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ↗

— William James

#fatiguing #hanging #nothing #task

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ↗

— William James

#habitual #human #human being #indecision #miserable

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ↗

— William James

#challenges #credit #fact #in fact #just

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#fun #nothing #you

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#becoming #completely #contempt #cut #felt

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#make #nothing #rules #since #them