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343 Hollow quotes by 288 unique authors

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to… — Charlotte Bronte
Today's aikido is so dimensionless. It's hollow, empty on the inside. People try to reach the highest levels without even paying their dues. That's why… — Gozo Shioda
I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But… — Anne Michaels
Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow. — Thomas Huxley
The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that,… — Karl Kraus
From a distance, a clone's luminous eyes are meant to draw in humans and make them feel safe. Up close, the eyes appear hollow. Because… — Rachel Cohn
Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on… — Robert Kirkman
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot… — Eric Shinseki
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash… — John Milton
I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the ‘hollow reed’… — Tom Kenyon
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to… — Henry David Thoreau
A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around… — Robert Montgomery
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked… — Dan Simmons
The leaves hop, scraping on the ground. It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice. It is in… — Wallace Stevens
Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court. — William Shakespeare
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner
Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them… — George Steiner
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the… — Anton Chekhov
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. — Richard O'Brien
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether… — Hippocrates
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday. — Zakk Wylde
Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty… — Stevie Wonder
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. — Nicholas Breton

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