Empty Quotes - page 10

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World. (Barbara Amiel)
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. View quote
Benjamin Whichcote
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. View quote
David Brainerd
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. View quote
Dee Hock
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House. View quote
Diane Cilento
The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. View quote
Djimon Hounsou
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain. View quote
Dan Quisenberry
To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty. View quote
Eddie Money
I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse. View quote
Edgar Wright
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty. View quote
H. Rap Brown
The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality. (Hunter Tylo)
Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works. View quote
Hari Kunzru
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell. View quote
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd. View quote
Johnny Giles
Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow. View quote
Leon Redbone
Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty. View quote
Lorraine Bracco
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? View quote
Lukas Foss
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western. View quote
Lawrence Kasdan
To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast. View quote
Lee Haney
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success. View quote
Marvin Sapp
I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. (Meredith Monk)
Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one. View quote
Missy Peregrym
At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them. View quote
Mort Walker
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse. View quote
Nicholas Breton
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust. View quote
Orson F. Whitney