Empty Quotes

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

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 same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.