Filling Quotes
399 quotes by 334 authors
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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your…
— Sarah Dessen
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Although we were not able to shatter that highest and hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it has 18 million cracks in it,…
— Hillary Clinton
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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really…
— Barbara Pym
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Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness…
— Jeanette Winterson
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But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our…
— C.S. Lewis
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his…
— Jodi Picoult
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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the…
— Michael Shermer
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Hey!†I said, indignation filling me. “I’m immortal! Doesn’t that mean I won’t get saggy boobs and gray hair? Because if it doesn’t mean that,…
— Katie MacAlister
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The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling…
— Joan Lowery Nixon
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Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,…
— Clive Barker
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And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad…
— Mark Haddon
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Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt…
— Jen Lancaster
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So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.
— Tim Gunn
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When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past…
— Janet Fitch
Who Wrote These Filling Quotes
334 authors contributed a total of 399 Filling Quotes, led by these top contributors: