Empty famous quotes

Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.
-- Adam Levine

#Girl #Feelings #Empty

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Gun #Empty #Barrels

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
-- Al Smith

#Santa #Empty #Fireplaces

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Keys #Empty #Key To Happiness

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
-- Alberto Manguel

#Long #Library #Empty

He could start a row in an empty house.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Inspirational #House #Empty

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
-- Alex Shakar

#Stupidity #Deep Thought #Empty

And empty heads console with empty sound.
-- Alexander Pope

#Sound #Speech #Empty

We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.
-- Alistair Begg

#Thinking #Scripture #Empty

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.
-- Amanda Donohoe

#Making Money #Empty

All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.
-- Amy Dickinson

#Women #Promise #Empty

You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
-- Andrea Gibson

#Heart #Empty #Weak

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
-- Anthony Kiedis

#Energy #Empty #Vessel

Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind.
-- Archie Fire Lame Deer

#Thinking #Mind #Empty

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Crowds #Empty

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough

#Cheating #Stealing #Empty

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Stars #Faces #Empty

The most significant thing is public participation. That assures the Afghan public that our promises are not empty.
-- Ashraf Ghani

#Promise #Empty #Significant

Let's use that empty noggin of yours as a punch bowl, so it's at least good for something!! Whadja say?! Ooh, but I love punch!!
-- Aya Nakahara

#Use #Empty

I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Mind #Empty

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
-- Barbara Amiel

#World #Empty #Rhetoric

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Accomplishment #Bags #Empty

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Inspirational #Empty

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.
-- Bernard Williams

#Optimistic #Someday #Empty

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.
-- Beth Moore

#Mean #Resurrection #Empty

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.
-- Bette Greene

#Space #Empty #Counting

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.
-- Bill Toomey

#Careers #Empty #Stadiums

The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Hands #Empty #Danger

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Stupid #Careers #Empty

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
-- Billy Connolly

#Mother #Drink #Empty

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
-- Boris Johnson

#Vacuums #Void #Empty

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
-- Boy George

#Successful #Empty

Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.
-- Bradley Denton

#World #Empty #Stores

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
-- Brent Weeks

#Life Is #Empty #Worthless

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.
-- Bruce Lee

#Water #Mind #Empty

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Giving #Empty #Enough

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Empty #Enough #Boxes

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.
-- Carole Landis

#Careers #House #Empty

We all have to feel empty sometimes.
-- Carrie Jones

#Sometimes #Empty #Feels

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen

#Needs #Empty

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
-- Charles Babbage

#Science #Names #Empty

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Lonely #Museums #Empty

I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Empty #Moonlight #Streets

Fame is nothing but an empty name.
-- Charles Churchill

#Names #Fame #Empty

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.
-- Charles Hodge

#Strong #Self #Empty

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
-- Charles Peguy

#Winning #Innocence #Empty

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Empty

I empty myself with light Until I become morning.
-- Charles Wright

#Morning #Light #Empty

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.
-- Chiang Kai-shek

#Soldier #Revolution #Empty

Lone women, like to empty houses, perish.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Women #House #Empty

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Song #Faces #Empty

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
-- Clement Attlee

#Empty #Taxi #Streets

I play in a lot of empty rooms.
-- Colin Hay

#Play #Rooms #Empty

Words are but empty thanks.
-- Colley Cibber

#Thanks #Empty

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.
-- Cynthia Voigt

#Maps #Forests #Empty

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.
-- Daisy Whitney

#Ideas #People #Empty

Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.
-- Daniel Handler

#Beautiful #Party #Empty

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#Empty

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.
-- David Klass

#Empty #Cleverness

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.
-- David Lange

#Past #Empty #Heavy

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.
-- David Levithan

#Pain #Truth Is #Empty

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
-- Deb Caletti

#Space #Looks #Empty

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
-- Demosthenes

#Speech #Action #Empty

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
-- Denis Johnson

#Rainbow #Empty #Prisms

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.
-- Derek Prince

#Doe #Kind #Empty

I never knew how empty the world could be, how colorless, until I tried to live in it without you
-- Diana Palmer

#World #Empty #Without You

When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
-- Dieter Dengler

#Scratches #Empty

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.
-- Dr. Seuss

#Funny Inspirational #Pants #Empty

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
-- Eddie Money

#Glasses #Half #Empty

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
-- Edmond Jabes

#Emptiness #Speak #Empty

An empty man is full of himself.
-- Edward Abbey

#Men #Empty

An open mind but not an empty head.
-- Edward Tufte

#Mind #Open Mind #Empty

It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.
-- Edward Tufte

#Space #Information #Empty

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.
-- Eiji Yoshikawa

#House #Benefits #Empty

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
-- Eleanor Brown

#Selfish #Care #Empty

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.
-- Elizabeth Scott

#Numb #Truth Is #Empty

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?
-- Elton John

#Garden #Play #Empty

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.
-- Emily Giffin

#Glasses #Half #Empty

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
-- Ernest Hemingway

#Writing #Stories #Empty

To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.
-- Eunhyuk

#Soccer #Would Be #Empty

A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
-- Evan Esar

#Problem #Dictator #Empty

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.
-- Félix J. Palma

#Thinking #Ideas #Empty

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Play #Actors #Empty

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

#Emptiness #Empty

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
-- Franz Grillparzer

#Fame #Empty #Divine

...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. "Holling," she said. "I was so afraid I wouldn't fine you." "I was standing right here, Heather." I said. "I'll always be standing right here.
-- Gary D. Schmidt

#Heathers #Empty #Said

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men.  It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
-- Gene Edwards

#Men #Speak #Empty

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
-- Georg Simmel

#Empty #Given #Existence

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
-- George Eliot

#Wise #Men #Empty

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
-- George Eliot

#Kissing #Forgotten #Empty

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.
-- George Hamilton

#Barcelona #Welcome #Empty

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
-- George Orwell

#Empty

Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.
-- Georges Bataille

#Desire #Longing #Empty

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?
-- Gillian Flynn

#Sky #Safe #Empty

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself,
-- Grace Metalious

#Bottles #Saws #Empty

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.
-- Guillaume Canet

#Needs #Emotion #Empty

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.
-- Gunter Grass

#Night #Singing #Empty

He Himself creates, O Nanak; He establishes the various creatures. How can anyone be called bad?. There is One Lord and Master of all; He watches over all, and assigns all to their tasks. Some have less, and some have more; no one is allowed to leave empty.
-- Guru Angad

#Tasks #Watches #Empty

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.
-- Gustav Klimt

#Long #Empty

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!
-- Gustave Flaubert

#Heart #Lines #Empty