This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them.… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When I was making the most money at the top of my game, driving Bentleys and all that, I felt so existentially… — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever.… — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
“Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent.… — Urobuchi Gen Copy Share Image
Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, .. After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People -… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The night echoes into my hollow lungs in a way that the morning and afternoon sun would never understand or be able… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty… — Grimes Copy Share Image
