Empty Quotes

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

An empty canvas is full.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

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

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.