Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

Sarah Addison Allen

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• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Art
  • Empty
  • Thou Art

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• It feels as if I never get my just due.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Never
  • Feels
  • Just

• When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Community
  • Justice
  • Empty

• I'm empty, here at the edge of the sky.

  

  Du Fu
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Edge

• I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Growing
  • Feels
  • Week

• Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Creative

• I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Night
  • Feels
  • Creative

• Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Singing
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

• I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Free
  • Past
  • Serious

• If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Feels
  • Right
  • Clothes

• I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

  

  Donald Glover
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Sitting

• To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Feels

• My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Reality
  • Years
  • Feels

• The moment always dictates in my work. What I feel, I do. This is the most important thing for me. Everybody can look, but they don't necessarily see. I never calculate or consider; I see a situation and I know that it's right, even if I have to go back to get the proper lighting.

  

  Andre Kertesz
  • Work
  • Important
  • Moments

• And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Power
  • Courage

• I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Feels
  • Strange
  • Talking

• If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Women
  • Church
  • Feels

• I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Space

• Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

  

  Emile Zola
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Lost

• I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Appeals
  • Passive
  • Maverick

• Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Learning
  • Books
  • Languages

• How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Feels
  • Empty