Empty Quotes
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I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.
Peter Brook
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I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
Tablo
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All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.
Amy Dickinson
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You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.
Vivien Leigh
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It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
Ted Dekker
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If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.
Lao Tzu
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When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Tom Stoppard
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Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music "for" their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.
Saib Tabrizi
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
Norman Douglas
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Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
Nyogen Senzaki
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang and sang But the satyr never stirred- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard.
Sara Teasdale
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Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
Gene Edwards
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
William Cowper
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
Petrarch
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler Yeats
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The bashful beggar has an empty purse.
William Cranch Bond
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Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
William Cowper
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And maybe I knew how to look at a person, that exact angle to display, the way to shift the light on my face, but now I looked vacant, empty, naked … and for a fraction of a second—maybe more, maybe even a full second—I gave them fear, and finally, like a reel of film had been removed and I had to wait for another to be inserted, I smiled again.
Chris Campanioni
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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.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
Virginia Woolf
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... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.
Hallgrimur Helgason