Empty Quotes

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He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring. — Joni Mitchell
Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive. — Melissa Etheridge
Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? — Elton John
Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature. — Laozi
I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye… — David Bowie
If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty… — David Bowie
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it. — Charles Babbage
My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle… — Johnny Cash
Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this… — John Updike
Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals. — Theodor Adorno
Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women. — Ambrose Bierce
Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes. — Dan Fogelberg
Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he… — Bob Dylan
Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain… — Pete Townshend
Fame and fortune, how empty they can be. — Elvis Presley
Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself. — Billy Idol
While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our… — Raul Grijalva
I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the… — Dhani Harrison
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… — Hari Kunzru
Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the… — Billy Joel

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