Empty Quote by Charles Simic Download Open image “Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.” — Charles Simic ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empty Lighthouse
I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat. — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“To know if I'm alone in my longing, a lighthouse signaling to an empty sea.” — Colleen Oakley Copy Share Image
We are the captains of our own ships sailing the sea of life, but in times of a stormy weather, you will discover true… — Neelam Copy Share Image
I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead. — Arthur M. Jolly Copy Share Image
If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola’s words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the” — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
The boats outside the window were always still I wondered if one of them would take me to the ocean. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority is what… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“There’s a book called “A Dictionary of Angels.” No one has opened it in fifty years, I know, because when I did, The covers… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“The truth is dark under your eyelids. What are you going to do about it? The birds are silent; there's no one to ask.… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“The Something" Here come my night thoughts On crutches, Returning from studying the heavens. What they thought about Stayed the same, Stayed immense and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
There are knives that glitter like altars In a dark church Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile To be healed. There's a… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“هندوانه بودای سبز بر پیشخوان میوه فروش لبخندش را گاز میزنیم و دندانهایش را تف میکنیم :: Watermelons Green Buddhas On the fruit stand. We eat the smile And spit out the teeth.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!” “Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image