“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
Ali Smith book How to Be Both
Source: How to Be Both
“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
Ali Smith book How to Be Both
Source: How to Be Both
“He waited, but nothing happened.
"Boom? Was something suppose to happen there?"”
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Jace to Imogen, pg. 303
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
“Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
“Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
“Well, like they say, nothing can set a precedent until it happens for the first time.”
John Brunner book Timescoop
Source: Timescoop (1969), Chapter 19 (p. 122)
“Nothing happens to advance our potential until we step and say “I am responsible.””
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“When my pencil starts moving, it must be allowed its head or - bang! - nothing more happens.”
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) French painter
Source: 1879-1884, T-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot, p. 61/62 - in a letter to his friend Etienne Devismes, Late Summer of 1881
“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.”
Aldous Huxley book Crome Yellow
Source: Crome Yellow