Filling Quotes

My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.

Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.