Empty Quotes

• The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Night
  • Empty
  • Noose

• Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

  

  Homer
  • Words
  • Wind
  • Empty

• What you need to know to direct a movie is of such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Paint
  • Direct
  • Variety

• When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

  

  William Bagley
  • School
  • Education
  • Moments

• Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"

  

  David Kaufman
  • Stop
  • Empty
  • Instead

• Maybe that’s why I felt sad and empty—because I’d missed him all my life.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • My Life
  • Empty
  • Missed

• Even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • God
  • Empty
  • Full

• Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Creating
  • Produce
  • Emptiness

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

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Feels
  • Empty

• Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.

  

  Caroline Stevermer
  • Today
  • Black
  • Servant

• People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • People
  • Eating
  • Hungry

• You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • House
  • Prayer
  • Silence

• It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.

  

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Journalism

• ... 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
  • Cold
  • Darkness
  • Staring

• An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Secret
  • Empty
  • Envelopes

• Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Revolution
  • Able
  • Empty

• When a writer looked at an empty computer screen, what did she see? Tristan wondered. A movie screen ready to be lit with faces? A night sky with one small star blinking at the top, a universe ready to be written on? Endless possibilities. Love's endless twists and turns - and all love's impossibilities.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Night
  • Universe
  • Computer

• The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Healthy
  • Darkness
  • Stomach

• Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Rhythm

• Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Lives
  • Filled
  • Full

• Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Desire

• Who is sitting in that empty chair?

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Empty
  • Sitting
  • Chair

• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Attention
  • Kind
  • Mean

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