Empty Quotes

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When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are… — Naomi Klein
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against… — Harlan Ellison
I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if… — Charles Bukowski
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore. — Tom Stoppard
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren
Places that are empty of you are empty of life. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who… — John Green
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and… — Charles Bukowski
Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone. — Cornelia Funke
The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and… — Anne Ursu
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it… — Guy de Maupassant
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. — Denis Johnson
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of… — Rosamunde Pilcher
Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics. — Barry Hughart
As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog… — Loren Eiseley
The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the… — Margaret Atwood
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads. — Thomas Pynchon

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