Empty Quotes - Page 31

• People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

  Anna Friel

  Love Life, Games, Play

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

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• I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Thinking, Talking, Skulls

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• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Teacher, Art

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• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Powerful, Spring, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

  Washington Irving

  Struggle, Men, Mind

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.33, Penguin

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• I use a Bruce Lee technique: "The way of no way". He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

  Eddie Izzard

  Fighting, Thinking, Ideas

  "'I'm just a bloke talking crap'". Interview with Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Fire, Glasses, Guy

  Interview with Aaron Burgess, www.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

  Alicia Keys

  Mean, Understanding, Important

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

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• So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

  Jessica Lange

  Children, Home, Who I Am

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• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Selfish, California, Effort

  "The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts". Book by D. H. Lawrence, Vol. 4, 1987.

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• I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

  Al Lewis

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, People, Historical

  "Bring Up the Bodies : A Review and Interview With Booker Prize-winning Author Hilary Mantel". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

  Max Muller

  Light, Soul, Bud

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Writing, Thinking

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• All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

  Graham Norton

  Home, Doors, People

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• Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

  Yoko Ono

  Daughter, Pain, Heart

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• If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.

  Yoko Ono

  Sky, People, Parks

  "Yoko Ono at 80: 'I feel that I am starting a new life, a second life'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!

  Susan Orlean

  Block, Spring, Garden

  "Prune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2010.

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• The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Empty Vessels, Republican

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• People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  People, Laughing, Nests

  "Michelle Pfeiffer Opens Up About Younger Men, Love, and Family". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. May 3, 2012.

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• My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Writing, Opposites

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• I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

  David Rockefeller

  Friendship, Family, Money

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

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• Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

  George Sand

  Life, Intellectual, Flipping A Coin

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• I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

  Dan Savage

  Valentines Day, Exercise, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

  Amy Sedaris

  Couple, Air, Flying

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