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No Such Thing (previously titled Monster, Icelandic: Skrímsli) is a 2001 supernatural drama film directed by Hal Hartley. It tells the story of Beatrice (Sarah Polley), a journalist whose fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. The story is based very loosely on the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf. [1]
No Such Thing may refer to: "No Such Thing" (Chris Cornell song), a 2007 single; No Such Thing, a 2001 film by Hal Hartley "No Such Thing" (John Mayer song), a 2001 single "No Such Thing", a song by Dwight Yoakam from Population Me, 2003 "There's No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake" "No Such Thing as Vampires", the pilot episode of the TV series ...
"No Such Thing" is the debut single of American singer-songwriter John Mayer. It was serviced to US adult album alternative radio in June 2001 as the lead single from his first studio album, Room for Squares (2001). Like many of the songs from Mayer's early musical career, the song was co-written with Clay Cook.
"No Such Thing" peaked on the mainstream rock tracks at 33. Chris Long from the BBC said that "Stuck somewhere between Cornell’s initial incarnation in Soundgarden and a curious entry to American Idol, it is a collection that is both catchy and dreary at the same time, shown perfectly in the opening trio of No Such Thing ’s grown-up grunge."
The title for No Such Thing as a Fish comes from a fact in the QI TV series. In the third episode of the eighth series, also known as "Series H", an episode on the theme of "Hoaxes" reported that after a lifetime studying fish, the biologist Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there was no such thing as a fish. He reasoned that although there are ...
Anna Rosemary Ptaszynski (born 16 May 1986) is a British podcaster, television host and television writer. She is one of the four regular hosts of the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish alongside Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin.
Nothing, no-thing, or no thing, is the complete absence of anything as the opposite of something and an antithesis of everything. The concept of nothing has been a matter of philosophical debate since at least the 5th century BC. Early Greek philosophers argued that it was impossible for nothing to exist.
The book popularized the acronym TANSTAAFL ("There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"), and helped popularize Loglan, a constructed language which is used in the story for precise human-computer interaction. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations credits this novel with the first printed appearance of the phrase "There's no such thing as a free ...