Joe McElderry – Shuddering nonentity from the north-east. ❋ Unknown (2009)
“Without the cathedral, Kingsbridge would be nothing, the priory would sink back into obscurity, and Philip would once again be a nonentity, which is what he deserves.” ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)
His nonentity was a source of regret to us: we lamented to see a tall handsome youth, destined to rule over his fellow-men, trembling at the eight of a horse, and wasting his time in the game of hide-and-seek, or at leap-frog and whose whole information consisted in knowing his prayers, and in saying grace before and after meals. ❋ Various (N/A)
What the rationalist calls nonentity is the substrate and locus of all ideas, having the obstinate reality of matter, the crushing irrationality of existence itself; and one who attempts to override it becomes to that extent an irrelevant rhapsodist, dealing with thin after-images of being. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
He has been brought up to understand that to be a Duke is not to be a titled nonentity or a pampered _roué_, but to be one whom Providence has blessed with an opportunity of benefiting and watching over the welfare of those less fortunate than himself in the world's good gifts. ❋ Guy Boothby (1886)
His nonentity was a source of regret to us: we lamented to see s tall handsome youth, destined to rule over his fellow-men, trembling at the eight of a horse, and wasting his time in the game of hide-and - seek, or at leap-frog and whose whole information consisted in knowing his prayers, and in saying grace before and after meals. ❋ Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet De (1836)
Oh, and I'm such a "nonentity" that this thread is STILL going on, I see. ❋ Unknown (2008)
At strategy sessions of the Bush-Cheney campaign he was a "nonentity," recalled one Bush adviser. ❋ Unknown (2007)
She lives there with her current man, Floyd, a kind of nonentity who has little influence on Val's life or on his thinking. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Hawkins, one of the botany detail, was the spokesman, more or less, which I found surprising because Hawkins has always struck me as a kind of nonentity, one of those civil servants who make up the bulk of these teams, doing their jobs with all the efficiency and imagination they might possess if they were working in a huge bureau back here. ❋ Greenberg, Martin H. (1990)
It may almost be taken for granted that theological system-fighters do not read the New Testament: they hunt it for detached texts; they listen to it in church in that state of quiescent nonentity which is called reverent attention: but they never read it. ❋ Augustus De Morgan (1838)
Where's the blackguard to --, 'I beg pardon, decent reader; I forgot myself for a moment, or rather I got new life in me, for I am nothing at all at all for the last five months -- a kind of nonentity I may say, ever since that vagabond Burges occasioned me to pay a visit to my distant relations, till my friends get that last matter of the collar-bone settled. ❋ William Carleton (1831)
Trotsky, having been relegated to the status of a political 'nonentity' by his opponents, with Robert ❋ Unknown (2010)
Being "70 to 79" doesn't make me a "nonentity" since the "death panel" is not yet in power. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The rank and file of the party are in no mood to accept another 'nonentity' after Ramapati Ram Tripathi, who owes his existence as president of the state BJP to Rajnath Singh. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The healthcare bill will at worst be a nonentity, and probably will be a plus. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If that means signing off on a turncoat and a nonentity, so be it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
1. i am a nonentity2. It doesn't [exist], it's a nonentity!
3. Sorry kid but [Santa Claus] and the [tooth fairy] are nonentities. ❋ Coca (2003)
