Sentence examples for nothin from inspiring English sources

There's a song by Tom Waits, When the Money Runs Out, containing the line: "With a pint of Green Chartreuse ain't nothin' seems right".

He calls Martin Luther King a "ho" (lady of the night, in Harlem-speak), claims Rosa Parks was simply too tired to move to the back of the bus ("Ain't do nothin' but sit her black ass down") and admits that "O.J. did it".

As one Basie band member put it, "Count don't do nothin'.

One of Jolson's first lines, "You ain't heard nothin' yet," came to symbolize the arrival of the talking picture.

"Hell, ain't nothin' they can do about it".

Written on a typewriter and corrected by hand, the song lyrics see Dylan in a typically acerbic and firebrand mood: "I hate you cause you make my life seem like nothin' at all/I hate you cause yer name's lost it's (sic) meanin an' you can fool anybody now".

He courted Rose by singing, "Never marry no good-for-nothin boy," it being understood that the boy was himself, the "good-for-nothin" a disclaimer.

Gracin scored three top five singles in the year after his Idol run, including the No 1 hit Nothin' To Lose, a fast-rapping confection with a refrain – "Breaker breaker one-nine she's a big old flirt" – that's still rather charming a decade later.

Nikki Lane: All or Nothin' Lane huskily addresses heartbreak and lust on lap steel guitar-heavy songs.

Goffin and King had already written two major hits for the Cookies – the masochistic Chains (covered by the Beatles), and their gum-chewing, catty Don't Say Nothin' Bad About My Baby ("you better shut your mouth!").

"I AM not a weak-leadin', ethics-ignorin'...promise-breakin', do-nothin' Rick Perry phoney conservative," bellowed Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Texas's state comptroller, as she joined the 2006 race for governor this week.