#nothing

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth. ↗

— Bono

#cursed #digging #drilling #get #happy

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#nothing #real #really #television #unless

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#built #must #nothing #sand #stone

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#flattery #more #much #nothing #posterity

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#democratic #democratic system #detention #foreign #more

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#colours #degree #happen #happening #nothing

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#journalism #much #never #nothing

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him! ↗

— Eva Braun

#eyes #go #had #happen #hear

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#computer #criticize #dare #ennobled #expensive

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#condition #enlarged #enriches #horizon #human