Empty Quotes

2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of… — Rainer Maria Rilke
You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career. — Billy Bob Thornton
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. — Thomas Frank
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. — Benjamin Franklin
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth… — Anna Friel
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip… — Janeane Garofalo
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an… — Allen Ginsberg
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order… — Ellen Goodman
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising.… — Tom Colicchio
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the… — Charles Caleb Colton
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. — Mason Cooley
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. — William Cowper
I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good. — Graham Coxon
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for… — Larry David
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. — Democritus
The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down… — Paula Deen
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. — Demosthenes
Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus… — Maureen Dowd
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Honor is but an empty bubble. — John Dryden
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. — Meister Eckhart
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. — Albert Einstein
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. — Desiderius Erasmus
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land. — Arthur Erickson

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