There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning you're dead.
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me 'Good God Vidal what happened to your face?' And I said 'Oh nothing madam I just fell over a hairpin.'
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
And I know this happens because I took economics and I'd explain it to ya but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today we sigh.
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn I must do it by listening.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks financial speculation real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is you got to give em something. Either your money your land your woman or your ass.
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money and those who want to do everything with money.
You loan your friend money. You see them again they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man how's my money doin'?
Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Sadly we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.