We asked writers to imagine they were 18 again, but to tell nothing but the truth... I'd like to come to Oxford to read biology, but I really haven't got a very good reason.
Today's spies, we're told, are nothing like their hokey Hollywood image.
The taxi driver told me nothing like that had ever happened to him before.
He exerts some influence on his parliament, I'm told, but nothing like Albert II, King of the Belgians (I do love the kingship of the people, not the country) who has, according to Dr Bierblier, "knocked heads together with tremendous satisfaction, and results".
For all the posturing of the marketing men and the lighting guys telling me "nothing like this has ever been done before", for all the man hours and effort it takes to pull something like this off and for all the pointless attendance of writers and journalists, having something so barmy, so ferociously preposterous in the name of a bit of branded content, seemed oddly noble.
Latvia's story as I've just told it looks nothing like anything we've seen in the past, and probably not like anything we're likely to see in the future – including, by the way, Latvia's future.
His parents and teachers were encouraging, but even their expectations, he told me, were nothing like the pressure he put on himself.
10.39am GMT Israeli military spokeswoman: 'Truce talks not on the agenda' Asked about the prospect of truce talks, Israeli military spokeswoman Avital Leibovitz told al-Jazeera: Nothing like that is on the current agenda.
I had been urged to attend Champs, told there was nothing like it anywhere in the world, but I had gone to Jamaica in search of answers to another question: how could such a small island so comprehensively dominate sprinting on the world stage?
I am told there is nothing like this community at our café on the web.
