Nowhere Quotes

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

Minimal art went nowhere.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

We'd be nowhere without our looks.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.