Empty Quotes

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Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the… — Richard Dawkins
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the… — Orson F. Whitney
I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at… — Andy Daly
Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that… — Craig Brown
Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to… — Paul Bloom
So many poems you go into and come up empty. — Maxine Kumin
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people… — Peter Singer
The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. — Djimon Hounsou
The holiday season can be an especially trying time for our service men, women, and families. Military service and deployment create empty seats at holiday… — Geoff Stults
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig
If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with. — Alain Ducasse
When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my… — Unknown Author
No actor wants to play to an empty house. — Ian Mckellen
Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination. — Jack Williamson
Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too… — Edward McKendree Bounds
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I… — Luanne Rice
As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with… — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings… — Michael Hastings
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. — Charles Spurgeon
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. — Charles Simic

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