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Empty Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative…
- A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if…
- The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.
- 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…
- So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
- Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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