Empty Quotes - Page 11

• Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

  Jacques Torres

  Food, Cooking, Rewards

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• When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a spiritual practice for me simply means that you are there now. Not waiting for the next moment, or not living in the moment before, but you're there now. And it's there now which can only be really breathed and lived if the mind is empty enough to receive it.

  George Ogilvie

  Spiritual, Mean, Practice

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• Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

  Joan Jett

  Way, Spirit, Music And Lyrics

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
  As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

  John Brown

  Writing, Mean, White

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• In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.

  Leopold Hartley Grindon

  Work, Pride, Soul

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• the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

  Matsuo Basho

  Infinity, Emptiness, Intimate

  Matsuo Basho (2003). “A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen”, p.18, Counterpoint Press

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• Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Curiosity, May, Littles

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• Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

  Theodore Parker

  Truth, Home, Doors

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Sermons of Religion”, p.22

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• The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Self, Skills

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Memories, Ocean, Fog

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

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• What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Needs

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• Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Beach, Book, Writing

  1956 In the Ladies Home Journal, Nov.

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• Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

  Pindar

  Empty Mind, Envy, Mind

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• while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Men, Class

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• The greatness that would make us grave,
  Is but an empty thing.
  What more than mirth would mortals have?
  The cheerful man's a king.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Kings, Greatness, Men

  Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1814). “Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald”, p.14

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• My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.

  Maxine Kumin

  Writing, Needs, Nests

  Maxine Kumin (1996). “Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories”

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• we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

  Beatrice Webb

  Fire, Answers, Speech

  Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

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• Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.

  Laurie Colwin

  Success, Dream, Self

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• An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Stupid, Ugly Things

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

  Emily Carr

  Going Out, Want, Lasts

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.351, D & M Publishers

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• Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

  Constance Rourke

  Humor, Men, Tools

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• when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Gourds, Use, World

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• I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

  Rita Hayworth

  Happiness, Want, Reviews

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, What If

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• I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

  Pauly Shore

  Thinking, Looks, Half

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2017

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