Empty Quotes - Page 3

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Food, Science

  Iris Murdoch (1989). “The Book and the Brotherhood”, p.32, Penguin

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• I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

  Anish Kapoor

  Years, Two, Lines

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• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  Imre Lakatos

  Philosophy, Blind, History Of Science

  Imre Lakatos (1978). “Philosophical Papers”

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• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

  H. Rap Brown

  Lying, Progress, Deceit

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• I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Mean, Appreciate, Approval

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

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• At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

  Rose Tremain

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

  Bill Toomey

  Careers, Stadiums

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• The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Long, Bed, Stomach

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• I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

  Talib Kweli

  Feels, Comfortable

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• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

  Barbara Amiel

  World, Rhetoric, Free World

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• So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

  Richard O'Brien

  Kind, Fame, Hollow

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• When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.

  Y. C. James Yen

  People, Democracy, Kindergarten

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• Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

  Hedda Hopper

  Punishment, Two, Telephones

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• This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

  Amelia Barr

  Running, Giving, Luck

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• Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Dust, Skulls

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Fun, Stomach, Protest

  "Police and protesters square off" by Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. August 27, 2004.

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• Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Hope, Idealism And Realism, Idealism

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• When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

  George W. Bush

  Fire, Camels, Tents

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

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• January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Evil, Theatre, Months

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• I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

  Graham Coxon

  Munich, Berlin, Germany

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• I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny Inspirational, Knowledge, Men

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub

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• The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, Believe, Land

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

  Juvenal

  Pockets, Thieves, Faces

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• I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

  Ang Lee

  Drama, Thinking, Romantic Love

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• When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Able, Muhammad, Areas

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Mar 12, 2014

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