Empty Quotes

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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.

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.

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.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

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