Nowt Quotes & Sayings

It's easier to have a go at something again when you failed at it as you've got nowt to lose. — Karl Pilkington

There's nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you're different, and you'll be grown and gone afore I know." He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. "And this is hardly a place that'll draw you back," he said. — David Almond

Th' world's full o' jackasses brayin' an' they never bray nowt but lies. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

- I'm just interested in women, Brian
- So am I, Kibby whined in urgent complaint.
- You think you are, but you're not. You read sci-fi magazines, for fuck sakes.
- I am! What I read's got nowt tae dae wi it! Kibby blurted.
Skinner shook his head. - You're not curious about girls, other than sexually. I know you fancied Shannon, but you never talked to her about anything that she might have been interested in, you just inflickted your own shite about video games and hillwalking clubs on to her. — Irvine Welsh

Chicago will forever be in my heart," she said. "It is the Paris of the Middle West. — Graham Moore

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole ... 'Talent is Work' — Galina Ulanova

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about. — Alan Sillitoe

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice. — Marquis De Lafayette

There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations. — Charles Bass

It's spring giving way to summer, balmy air smelling of roses, hot skin meeting the cold shock of the ocean, starry nights as warm as kisses. — Sarah McCarry

There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being. — Bill McKibben

You don't have a boyfriend, or a girlfriend?" Curtis said softly. "Actually, yeah. I have both and a few women that I pimp out for money," Genesis said loudly, making everyone, including Curtis laugh. Curtis rolled his eyes at him. "No — A.E. Via

They talk o' rich folks bein' stuck up and genteel, but for iron-clad pride o' respectability there's nowt like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis as cold as the wind on Greenhow Hill
aye, and colder, too, for 'twill never change. — Rudyard Kipling

They keep saying that sea levels are rising an' all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science. — Karl Pilkington

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too. — Tupac Shakur

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting. — Frank Langella

I'm going to fail to hit the mark I've put up before me because it's not possible to hit it. I want to be the best at what I do so I've got to get over myself already because that's never going to happen. I ain't ever going to be God. — Tom Hardy

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves. — Brian Clough

The place of justice is a hallowed place. — Francis Bacon

This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab. — Irvine Welsh

Never expect owt for nowt. — Sylvia Lovat Corbridge

I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled. — Jeanette Winterson

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt. — Karl Pilkington

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. — John White Geary

You get NOWT for being second. — Don Revie

We have to live with the certainty that we'll get old and that it won't look nice or be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it's nowt hat matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength. — Muriel Barbery