Vacant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Everybody works but the vacant lot
-- Henry George

#Vacant
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
-- Jimmy Breslin

#Arsonists #Vacant
Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.
-- John Cheever

#Savages #Shame #Vacant
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
-- Sir Fulke Greville

#Brain #Pedants #Vacant
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
-- Todd Solondz

#Mind #Sometimes #Vacant
We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.
-- Roland Barthes

#Forget #Settling #Vacant

The real wealth in Krishna Consciousness is Humility. We don't have to become a big devotee rather we have to become a Humble Devotee.
I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room.
How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
I will write with honesty and feeling.
One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.
There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction.
You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.
Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.
I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.