Empty Quotes
2485 Empty quotes by 1617 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our life is full of empty space.
— Umberto Eco
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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
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I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.
— Pauly Shore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
— Richard Dawkins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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So many poems you go into and come up empty.
— Maxine Kumin
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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
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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
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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
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Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.
— Michael Leunig
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