Empty Quotes

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

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

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.