Empty Quotes - Page 15

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

When the mind's an empty room The clear days come.

All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

I would rather be dead than empty

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.