Fill The Void Quotes - Page 2

• If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

  Madeline Kahn

  Actors, Void, Scene

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• A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Girl, Numbers, Towers

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.9, Penguin

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• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Books are totally useless unless you take their advice. If you just keep reading them, thinking "that's so insightful! that changes everything," but never actually doing anything different, then pretty quickly the feeling will wear off and you'll start searching for another book to fill the void.

  Aaron Swartz

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

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• Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

  Rod Taylor

  Art, Six Months, Void

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• When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day, when we choose not to make our voices and opinions heard, that's when democracy breaks down. That's when power is abused. That's when the most extreme voices in our society fill the void that we leave. That's when powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence in the corridors of power - because none of us are there to speak up and stop them.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Voice, Issues

  "Obama Michigan Graduation Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

  Mel Torme

  Men, Magic, Void

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