Empty Quotes

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Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through… — Victoria Finlay
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will… — Ajahn Chah
On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Women who work for escort agencies that assign them out to prostitution dates at sushi restaurants know how to eat with chopsticks, and beyond that… — Julie Klausner
Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career. — Billy Bob Thornton
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. — Thomas Frank
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. — Benjamin Franklin
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth… — Anna Friel
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip… — Janeane Garofalo
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an… — Allen Ginsberg
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order… — Ellen Goodman
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising.… — Tom Colicchio
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the… — Charles Caleb Colton
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. — Mason Cooley
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. — William Cowper
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. — Graham Coxon
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for… — Larry David

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