Hollow Quotes

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

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

While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.