Empty Quotes

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

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.