Empty Quotes - page 5

Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits. (William Saroyan)
Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire. View quote
Georges Bataille
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Virtue is no empty echo. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form. View quote
Cyril Connolly
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. View quote
Betty Friedan
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. View quote
Corrie Ten Boom
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature - swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song. View quote
Roger Zelazny
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. (Imre Lakatos)
With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open-a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road-and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed. View quote
Aravind Adiga
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. View quote
Ralph Ellison
My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion. View quote
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch. View quote
Georges Bernanos
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God. View quote
John Buchan
I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality. View quote
John Buchan
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach. View quote
Ibrahim Babangida
I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility-woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist. View quote
Charles Stross
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a temporary victory - sometimes but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will. (Benjamin Franklin)
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. View quote
Alan Watts
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall. View quote
David Lange