Empty Quotes

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

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

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

My witness is the empty sky.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

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.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.