Vacant Quotes

• Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

  James Frey

  Hipster, Heart, Skulls

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.287, Rutgers University Press

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• Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

  Walter Scott

  Art, Eye, Hands

  'The Bride of Lammermoor' (1819) ch. 2

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• For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Eye, Solitude

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Relaxation, Mind

  William Cowper, James Montgomery (1825). “Poems of William Cowper ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery ... Second edition”, p.240

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• The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mind, Appetite, Ifs

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1988). “A vindication of the rights of woman: an authoritative text, backgrounds, the Wollstonecraft debate, criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughter, Laughing, Mind

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 121.

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• A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Heart, Men

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• That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

  William Wordsworth

  Eye, Solitude, Inward

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Opinion, Moments

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• Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, History, Tiresome

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• I like black because it is a vacant space.

  Lady Gaga

  Space, Black

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• Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

  Louis XIV

  Ungrateful, Unhappy, Hundred

  "Absolutism in central Europe" by Peter H. Wilson, (p. 54), 2000.

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• Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

  Julian Clary

  Personality, Rodents, Stakes

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• The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Arsonists, Counterfeit Money

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• O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

  T. S. Eliot

  Dark, Space, Star Gazing

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 3 (1940)

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• Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

  Louis XIV

  Office, Political, Ingrates

  Molière, quoting Louis XIV, "Siècle de Louis Quatorze" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 610-613), 1922.

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• Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Garden, Pleasure

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, House, Scare

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• Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Home, Share

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• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Jobs, Eye

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• A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, White, Space

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, College, Men

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• Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Lying, Grief

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 93

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• The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Laughter, Wind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.61

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• There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Lambs, Chairs

  'A Psalm of Life' (1838)

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