Empty Space Quotes - Page 5

• Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

  Freya Stark

  Space, Silence, Style

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.50, I.B.Tauris

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sports, Space, Rocks

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, October 2, 2006.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

  Gary Busey

  Dream, Land, Space

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Men, Filled Up

  9 Copy quote

• As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

  Will Shortz

  Space, Empty, Natural

  17 Copy quote

• All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.

  Simone Weil

  Filling Up, Law, Space

  5 Copy quote

• I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

  Michio Kaku

  Swimming, Thinking, Space

  12 Copy quote

• Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Morning, Children, Betrayal

  Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Sky, Space

  4 Copy quote

• And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blood, Space, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Kids, Space, Might

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.12, Hachette UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke

  Nora Roberts

  Regret, Thinking, Space

  4 Copy quote

• It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.

  Edward Tufte

  Space, Information, Empty

  5 Copy quote

• Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Eye, Dark, Night

  5 Copy quote

• What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

  Louise Penny

  Falling In Love, Loneliness, Thinking

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.450, Macmillan

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• She looked out then, through the crowd, and saw Simon with the Lightwoods, looking at her across the empty space that separated them. It was the same way that Jace had looked at her at the manor. It was the one thread that bound these two boys that she loved so much, she thought, their one commonality: They both believed in her even when she didn't believe in herself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Boys, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1227, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Atoms, Matter

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.243, Ballantine Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Space, Shapes, Empty

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of empty space. It reminded me of the way cities and towns look when you are flying at night. You can't make out much. But the places where people have come together, and stayed, are collections of tiny lights, breaking up the darkness.

  Sarah Dessen

  Distance, Night, Space

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.146, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wine, Men, Space

  4 Copy quote

• He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Found Someone, Space

  Julia Quinn (2008). “The lost duke of Wyndham”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Filling Up, Space, Empty

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.110, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Moon, Law, Circles

  7 Copy quote

• There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Memories, Space

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 04, 2011

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.

  Jack Kerouac

  Cute, Eye, Hair

  4 Copy quote