Empty Quotes

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I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach. — W.C. Fields
Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something. — Helen Levitt
Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always… — Todd McFarlane
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at… — Ian Fleming
We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if… — Teju Cole
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her… — Betty Friedan
I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be… — Adam Duritz
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying… — Jonathan Swift
When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it. — Chinua Achebe
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something… — Pauline Kael
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter… — Malcolm Lowry
An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full. — Robert Rauschenberg
An empty canvas is a living wonder â€” far lovelier than certain pictures. — Wassily Kandinsky
An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance â€“ almost dull, in fact â€“ in reality, is crammed with thousands… — Wassily Kandinsky
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty… — Raphael
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young,… — Robert A. Heinlein
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls. — Simone de Beauvoir
A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill. — Mike Royko
The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist. — Democritus
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;â€“â€“for thoughts, there is always time; life… — Emile M. Cioran

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