289 Empty Quotes for You to Enjoy

I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right! Susan Orlean

Me Garden Space Plants Spring Sight Seem Gives Writers Missed Calling Empty None Editor Block Equivalent Beds Quite Them Might Much Choose Many Among Right

Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat? Suzanne Somers

Others Promise Eat Some Cabbage Longer Over Empty Stick How How Much Soup Ultimate Been Perpetuating Than Person Same Dieting Just Diets Again Victims Much Cycle

Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives. Tammy Duckworth

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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes. Taya Kyle

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. Theodore Sturgeon

Space Outer Outer Space More Empty Because Interesting Much Inner

Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained. Thomas McGuane

Game Old Mind Long Meditation Spell Background Neighbor Response Some Only Insomnia Remained Lifting Clear Like Piece Until Learned Principles Empty Jack Each

I remember going to the cinema to watch 'Blade Runner' when I was 14 or 15. It was a huge flop when it came out. The cinema was almost empty. I was blown away by it. Toby Stephens

Cinema Remember Out Runner Blade Blade Runner Almost Empty Came Huge Blown Blown Away Going Away Flop Watch

In my opinion the only problem with Guantanamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now. We should be sending more terrorists there for further interrogation to keep this country safe. Tom Cotton

Problem Country Too Further Bay More Only Safe Empty Opinion Terrorists Beds Sending Cells In My Opinion Should Many Keep Now Right Interrogation Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay

Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core. Tony Evans

Religion Programs Religious Cross Empty Causing Often Blurred Activities Core

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees! Tove Jansson

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One rule which applies to every role is that you have to surrender yourself to the director with an empty slate. Vicky Kaushal

You Director Surrender Yourself Every Rule Empty Role Which Slate

Love for your work, love for another person, love for yourself - love is a huge pond, and it's never empty. You can go and take from it, and it will give you strength. Vicky Krieps

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I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it. Vicky Krieps

Will Feeling Nothing Difficult Respond Empty Because Listen Often Just Then Really Acting Chair

I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty. Walter Kirn

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation. Wilfred Burchett

You Feeling Building See Gives Devastation Perhaps Look Empty Around Arrive Hiroshima Square Square Miles Man-Made Stomach Miles Hardly

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. William Kennedy

Work Music Best Ego Sense Worst Poetic Voices Self Cry Empty Without Reduced Often Literature Place Rooms Thin

I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X. William Klein

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I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table. Wylie Dufresne

Don't move to L.A to become an actress - you'll just be a waitress. Don't drive to Nashville to become a country music star - you'll just end up playing empty honky-tonks at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday. Marc Randolph

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. Richard Dawkins

Religion Science Marriage Judge Alleged Shallow Sham Between Empty Honest

I have very fond memories of Basil's Bar. It was an extraordinary place. You would go for a drink and it would be empty except for the bar bore, which was David Bowie. Roddy Llewellyn

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Our life is full of empty space. Umberto Eco

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