As quoted in "Jah" http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=GCXBuoCDcrI#Gore_Vidal_Rap_on_Da_Ali_G_Show (15 August 2004), Da Ali G Show
2000s
Quotes about nothing
page 57
“It is one thing to be supportive, and another to be in exchange for nothing.”
30 June, 2015
As President, 2015
Source: Cadena COPE https://twitter.com/cope_es/status/615778637678129156
Source: Problems In Genetics (1913), p. 190
“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.”
Source: A Last Vintage, p. 172.
“Oklahoma is nothing but vast wasteland; no place for black people.”
As quoted in "Barkley: Oklahoma a vast wasteland" http://newsok.com/article/1757468 (10 February 2006), by Andrew Gilman, The Oklahoman
Open Letter To Satanists
Preface (dated 27 December 1791) to the first Cheng-Gao edition of Dream of the Red Chamber, as translated by John Minford in The Story of the Stone: The Debt of Tears (Penguin, 1979), Appendix I, p. 386
“There is nothing automatic about campaign pledges finding their way into public policy.”
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 3, Outside Government, But Not Just Looking In, p. 63
Source: Rodin : the man and his art, with leaves from his notebook, 1917, p. 125
Quoted in News.com.au, "Abbott OK being a 'lame, gay, churchy loser'" in news.com.au from all angles http://web.archive.org/web/20090829085019/http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25992545-421,00.html, August 28 2009.
2009
Mishnah https://www.sefaria.org.il/Mishnah_Yadayim.3.5?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en|
describing a children's game in his essay, Tàpies suggests looking at a chair
1945 - 1970
Source: 'El joc de saber mirar' ('The Game of Knowing How to Look'), Antoni Tàpies, Cavall Fort, núm 82, Barcelona, gener de 1967 - translated from Catalan; as quoted in: 'Tàpies: From Within', June ─ November, 2013 - Presse Release, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC )p. 16, note 9
Cross-correspondences (p. 69)
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)
Muntakhabut-Tawarikh, translated into English by George S.A. Ranking, Patna Reprint 1973, Vol. I, p. 17-28
Quotes from Muslim medieval histories
“To the eye of God there are no numbers: seeing all things at one time, he counts nothing.”
As quoted in Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy (1997), p. 101.
“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Don’t uncover, because there might be nothing. And nothing can’t be covered again.”
No descubras, que puede no haber nada. Y nada no se vuelve a cubrir.
Voces (1943)
During live coverage of the presidential primaries on MSNBC, 12 February 2008 http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/02/13/matthews-obama-speech-caused-thrill-going-my-leg
Speech given at a Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Viewable here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKR0i-51S4.
"On Familiar Style" (1821)
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
The Natural Horse (1997)
Diary entry (3 August 1914), quoted in John Keiger, 'France' in Keith Wilson (ed.), Decisions for War 1914 (London: University College London Press, 1995), pp. 139-140.
Source: Persons and Places (1944), p. 159
“(The Constitution is) nothing less than a fraud on the Fijian people.”
Senate speech, 24 August 2004 (excerpts)
Source: From Serfdom to Socialism (1907), p. 11
Visions of Politics (2002), "Interpretation, rationality and truth"
LIGHTHIZER: Donald Trump is no liberal on trade http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/9/donald-trump-is-no-liberal-on-trade/ (May 9, 2011)
Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1973), pp. 61-62
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.
"Administrative Reform" (June 27, 1855) Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Speeches Literary and Social by Charles Dickens https://books.google.com/books?id=bT5WAAAAcAAJ (1870) pp. 133-134
Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 169
God Only Knows (co-written with Tony Asher)
Pet Sounds (1966)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 173.
Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 47
Bella Swan about Edward Cullen, p. 248
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
"The Comedies of William Congreve" in William and Mary College Monthly (September 1897), V, p. 41, as quoted in "James Branch Cabell at William and Mary: the Education of a Novelist," by William L. Godshalk in The William and Mary Review, 5 (1967); reprinted in Kalki, Vol II, No.4, Whole No.8 (1968) http://www.silverstallion.karkeeweb.com/kalki_archives/kalki_from.html
In response to the interviewer stating: 'But all those arrested are said to have been associated with you.'
1990s, Time magazine interview (1998)
Neil Hickey TV Guide interview http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/interviews/sep_1976.html (11 September 1976)
Alan Paton on Smuts's oratory, in Paton's final essay, A Literary Remembrance, published posthumously in TIME, 25 April 1988, p. 106.
Waltz (Better Than Fine)
Song lyrics, Extraordinary Machine (2005)
The People's Rights [1909] (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), pp. 133-134
Early career years (1898–1929)
Source: S. S. Shashi Encyclopaedia Indica: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Volume 100 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=bf8vAQAAIAAJ, Anmol Publications, 1996, p. 260
"Pacifism and Class War" in The Essays of A. J. Muste (1967) edited by p. 179-85; also quoted in American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) by Noam Chomsky, p. 160.
Washington Times op-ed by Nugent criticizing MSNBC for firing Pat Buchanan, February 20, 2012.
Source: The Book of My Life (1930), Ch. 13 Customs, Vices and Errors
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Book I, On Production, Chapter IX, p. 101
Inzwischen verlangt die Billigkeit, daß man die Universitätsphilosophie nicht bloß, wie hier gescheht!, aus dem Standpunkte des angeblichen, sondern auch aus dem des wahren und eigentlichen Zweckes derselben beurtheile. Dieser nämlich läuft darauf hinaus, daß die künftigen Referendarien, Advokaten, Aerzte, Kandidaten und Schulmänner auch im Innersten ihrer Ueberzeugungen diejenige Richtung erhalten, welche den Absichten, die der Staat und seine Regierung mit ihnen haben, angemessen ist. Dagegen habe ich nichts einzuwenden, bescheide mich also in dieser Hinsicht. Denn über die Nothwendigkeit, oder Entbehrlichkeit eines solchen Staatsmittels zu urtheilen, halte ich mich nicht für kompetent; sondern stelle es denen anheim, welche die schwere Aufgabe haben, Menschen zu regieren, d. h. unter vielen Millionen eines, der großen Mehrzahl nach, gränzenlos egoistischen, ungerechten, unbilligen, unredlichen, neidischen, boshaften und dabei sehr beschränkten und querköpfigen Geschlechtes, Gesetz, Ordnung, Ruhe und Friede aufrecht zu erhalten und die Wenigen, denen irgend ein Besitz zu Theil geworden, zu schützen gegen die Unzahl Derer, welche nichts, als ihre Körperkräfte haben. Die Aufgabe ist so schwer, daß ich mich wahrlich nicht vermesse, über die dabei anzuwendenden Mittel mit ihnen zu rechten. Denn „ich danke Gott an jedem Morgen, daß ich nicht brauch’ für’s Röm’sche Reich zu sorgen,”—ist stets mein Wahlspruch gewesen. Diese Staatszwecke der Universitätsphilosophie waren es aber, welche der Hegelei eine so beispiellose Ministergunft verschafften. Denn ihr war der Staat „der absolut vollendete ethische Organismus,” und sie ließ den ganzen Zweck des menschlichen Daseyns im Staat aufgehn. Konnte es eine bessere Zurichtung für künftige Referendarien und demnächst Staatsbeamte geben, als diese, in Folge welcher ihr ganzes Wesen und Seyn, mit Leib und Seele, völlig dem Staat verfiel, wie das der Biene dem Bienenstock, und sie auf nichts Anderes, weder in dieser, noch in einer andern Welt hinzuarbeiten hatten, als daß sie taugliche Räder würden, mitzuwirken, um die große Staatsmaschine, diesen ultimus finis bonorum, im Gange zu erhalten? Der Referendar und der Mensch war danach Eins und das Selbe. Es war eine rechte Apotheose der Philisterei.
Sämtliche Werke, Bd. 5, p. 159, E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, pp. 146-147
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), On Philosophy in the Universities
“In a full heart there is room for everything. In an empty heart there is room for nothing.”
En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.
Voces (1943)
Religion
From Computing Magazine, UK. Analysis: a case of government versus hacktivism http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/analysis/2230770/analysis-a-case-of-government-versus-hacktivism#ixzz2EzJrtLFS
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part I: Icelandic Pioneers
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Speech http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1951-/speech-by-george-c-wallace-the-civil-rights-movement-fraud-sham-and-hoax-1964-.php (4 July 1964)
1960s
You Oughta Know
Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Falsehood in Wartime (1928), Introduction
Quote of Malevich, November 1916, in: 'From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting'
1910 - 1920
"In enemy territory? An interview with Christopher Hitchens." http://www.johannhari.com/2004/09/23/in-enemy-territory-an-interview-with-christopher-hitchens, Interview with Johann Hari (2004-09-23): On the Bosnian War
2000s, 2004
Campaign speech for 1940 presidential candidate Wendell Willkie (September 27, 1940)
“[S]he had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.”
12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Trent Intervenes (1938)
“Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.”
IV. On Making an Omelette
A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)
“Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight above all.”
Before the battle of Trafalgar [citation needed]
The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Letter to his wife, Olga Knipper Chekhov (April 20, 1904)
Letters
On violence in video games
Source: YouTube http://youtube.com/watch?v=J1PXHesXopE
1997-05-09
Christopher Hitchens on Diana, Princess of Wales, the Royal Family, Dodi Fayed & Muslim Law (1997)
C-SPAN
Washington, D.C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQK2d1TdTzk
1990s
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 3, “Within Sight of the Land of Freedom” Section 1 (p. 43; ellipsis in the original)
“Oh, that's nothing – I could coach a coal scuttle to be Senior Wrangler.”
when complimented about coaching his one pupil scoring higher than his rival's pupils at Peterhouse Tripos, as quoted by [Cargill Gilston Knott, Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait, Cambridge University Press, 1911, http://books.google.com/books?id=PSU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11, 11]
Source: Evolution and Theology (1900), p. 11.
“Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”
On the Cambridge Apostles of Cambridge University, in Essays in Biography (1933) Ch. 39; also later used in My Early Beliefs, a memoir he read to the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club in 1943.