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Empty Quotes by Graham Swift
- Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space…
- Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a…
- That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now,…
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- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them.… — Amelia Barr
- There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man… — Jean Baudrillard
- Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the… — Annie Besant
- Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the… — Annie Besant
- The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan
- Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. — Ambrose Bierce
- It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach. — Michael Bloomberg
- I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun… — Ben Affleck