Empty Quotes

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[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. — Paolo Giordano
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. — Charles Churchill
If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to… — Nhat Hanh
As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty. — John Francis Daley
Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred… — Paul Johnson
When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get… — Mickey Rourke
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the empty… — Kim Alexis
I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider New York my… — Julie White
I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a… — Martin McDonagh
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an… — Renzo Piano
Our life is full of empty space. — Umberto Eco
Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one. — Missy Peregrym
I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty. — Pauly Shore
The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social… — Adora Svitak
When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a… — Lily Tomlin
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does… — John Irving
The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which… — Dani Shapiro
Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely… — Henry Rollins
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you… — Simon Mawer
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins

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