Refills Quotes

• People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Introvert, Empty

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Important, Energy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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• She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

  Sarah Winman

  Grateful, Glasses, Gold

  Sarah Winman (2011). “When God Was a Rabbit: A Novel”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

  Shawn Achor

  Glasses, Water, Important

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• The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Winter, Clouds

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.429, Vintage

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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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• How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.

  Peter Heller

  Running, Lying, Water

  Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.263, Vintage

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• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

  Maya Angelou

  Time, Children, War

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

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• The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear.

  Ernest Holmes

  Self, Order, Mind

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “The Art of Life”, p.22, Penguin

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• It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Long, Wish

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.29, Penguin

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• At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.

  Aimee Bender

  Wise, Wine, Eye

  Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

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• That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, People, Waiting

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• Can I get a fork?; There were no utensils in medieval times, hence there ARE no utensils AT Medieval Times- would you like a refill on your Pepsi? ;So there were no utensils but there was Pepsi?; Dude, I got a lot of tables to wait

  Matthew Broderick

  Cheesy Love, Waiting, Pepsi

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• This is an especially good time for you vacationers who plan to fly, because the Reagan administration, as part of the same policy under which it recently sold Yellowstone National Park to Wayne Newton, has "deregulated" the airline industry. What this means for you, the consumer, is that the airlines are no longer required to follow any rules whatsoever. They can show snuff movies. They can charge for oxygen. They can hire pilots right out of Vending Machine Refill Person School.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, School, Mean

  "Dave Barry's Greatest Hits". Book by Dave Barry, 1988.

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• A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Waiting

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.14, Melville House

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• The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.

  Bridget Riley

  Moving, Eye, Events

  Bridget Riley, Arts Council of Great Britain (1984). “Working with colour: recent paintings and studies”

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• The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.

  Richard Russo

  Real, Heart, Light

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• During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw three people file in through the center door and her breath caught. Time lapsed as they walked down the center aisle: three teenage girls all in a row. They were so big, so bright, so beautiful, so magnificent to Carmen’s eyes that she thought she was imagining them. They were like goddesses, like Titans. She was so proud of them! They were benevolent and they were righteous. Now, these were friends.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Girl, Teenage

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• I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.

  David Ebershoff

  Ocean, Second Chance, Imagine

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• ...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

  Kate Morton

  People, Stories, Ability

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• Refills are free,” the waitress tells us with a frown, like she’s hoping we’re not the kind of people who ask for endless refills. I am already pretty sure we are exactly those people.

  Holly Black

  People, Kind, Waitress

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Mircea leaned over to refill my wineglass, and a section of his bare chest showed under the robe, along with a hint of dusky nipple. It's a good thing I'm too stuffed to move, I thought hazily. I would so have jumped that.

  Karen Chance

  Moving, Hints, Nipples

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.134, Penguin

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• We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Justice, Leader, Movement

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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