Empty Quotes - Page 2

• Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Space, Interesting, Outer Space

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• Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

  William Kennedy

  Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

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

  Saadi

  Body, Spirit, Belly

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• We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

  Anna Freud

  Yesterday, Space, Tree

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• As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

  Ace Frehley

  Thinking, Keys, Play

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• When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

  Steve Largent

  Sports, Confidence, Children

  Pro Football Hall of Fame Induction Address, delivered 31 May 1995

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• A full mind is an empty bat.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Mind, Bats

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• Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

  Josh McDowell

  Tradition, Source, Tombs

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• No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

  William Cowper

  Men, Political, Politics

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• To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Emptiness

  "Men Who Have Walked with God". Book by Sheldon Cheney, 1992.

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• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Patience, Beach, Nature

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Canvas, Wonder, Certain

  "The Painter's Object" by Myfanwy Evans Piper, (p. 53), 1937.

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• Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Reality, Fierce

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.116, Oxford University Press

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• I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

  Antonio Porchia

  Hands, Sake

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, People, Tragedy

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

  Mary Oliver

  Poetry, Way, Baskets

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• No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Heart, Cups

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 15, 2014

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• An empty canvas is full.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Canvas, Empty Canvas

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• Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

  Nora Roberts

  Empathy, Feelings, Too Much

  Nora Roberts (2002). “Midnight Bayou”, p.120, Penguin

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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Hell

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

  Johnny Giles

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

  Boy George

  Successful, Felt

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• Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

  Charles Simic

  Perspective, Ships, Bottles

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