Empty Quotes

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.

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.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

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.

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

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

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty.

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.

An empty canvas is full.

My witness is the empty sky.

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

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

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.