Empty Quotes

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

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

All phenomena are empty.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

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

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

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

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

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

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

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

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

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

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

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!

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

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

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

I've never had an empty house. Ever.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

A full mind is an empty bat.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

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

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just feels better. You just feel like a leaner machine. You're not worrying about digesting things.

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.