There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.