Fill Quotes - page 2

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. (Robert Frost)
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. View quote
Oscar Wilde
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed How sweet their memory still But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. View quote
William Cowper
When you are an anvil, hold you still when you are a hammer, strike your fill. View quote
George Herbert
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. View quote
Albert Camus
So geographers, in Afric Marriages, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns. View quote
Jonathan Swift
When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders. View quote
Peter Senge
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things - the job, the house, the this, the that - do not really fill the place inside. View quote
Robertson Davies
And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age. View quote
Francis Quarles
It baseball will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. (Walt Whitman)
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. View quote
Maxwell Anderson
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. View quote
Naomi Klein
Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard. View quote
Sherrod Brown
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill. View quote
Vince Gill
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind. View quote
Charles Darwin
I am a follower of hyaluronic acid – always in small doses of course – to fill wrinkles and fine lines. View quote
Isabelle Adjani
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. View quote
Horace Mann
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas everyday, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art. View quote
Banksy
Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons. (John Donne)
I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints. View quote
M. C. Escher
What a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. View quote
Robert E. Lee
If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe. View quote
Fred Hoyle