Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hermann Hesse

And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t

Venus Williams

It was deathly windy! It was just swirling at random.

J. K. Rowling

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

Benedict Wong

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.

Sarah Parsons

I think we are going to come out flying and smoke them and prove to everyone how good our team actually is. We didn't sacrifice this much and work so hard to come home empty handed.

Walter Nalangu

There are one or two shops open. The marketplace is empty it is normally packed with hundreds of people. The only food people have is what they have at home.

Russell Baker

Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.

William Friedkin

You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

Sarah Addison Allen

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

Richard Ford

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

William Kennedy

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.

Veronica Roth

I would rather be dead than empty

Wendell Berry

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

Leo Tolstoy

I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.

Ambrose Bierce

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

Quentin Blake

The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.

Peter Forsberg

I take hundreds of photographs. I know the date, I know the time, I say 'Where the hell was I when I took this?

Chris Noth

I don't do a hell of a lot of publicity. I find it nauseous. I feel like a blithering idiot and your friends are laughing at you.

Ernie Paragallo

I don't know what the hell his problem is. He's not lame. He has no filling, no swelling, no breaks, no strains, nothing. There's nothing wrong with him.

Nick Holt

He has one hell of an arm, man.

Chad Johnson

Hello Jacksonville. I love you guys. Let's talk some trash.

Corey Rouse

Hell isn't an after-death experience. It's what we live every day.

Rob Corddry

Pat OBrien knows nothing. Hes on the Hell express.

Rick Riordan

Hello, Hazel Levesque.

Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

Marcus Trescothick

It is not ideal to go into the last match with the series already decided, but a lot of ranking points are up for grabs.

David Dunn

I think that would be an ideal situation for Kerry.

Donny Robinson

I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.

Eric Coyne

Ideally you want to do this once, and do it right.

Oliver Luck

Ideally you'd have 12 months to set this up, to get a staff and do everything necessary, and we've had three months to ramp up. But we'll be ready to go.

Robert Pattinson

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

Yves Saint Laurent

I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women.

Peter So

In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place at all.

John Bennett

If you have the time and money, a week or two of total immersion is the ideal solution.

William Shatner

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

Robert De Niro

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

Rob Bell

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Vinessa Shaw

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

Vincent Van Gogh

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

Sammy Cahn

Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.

Samuel Beckett

Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.

Whitney Houston

Loneliness comes with life.

William Cowper

I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.

Kelly Stinnett

I was always scared by not having a mask on. I feel more comfortable that way.

Richard O'Brien

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

Paul Reubens

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

Lady Gaga

Some of us wear the mask prouder than others.

Jewish Proverb

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

Toon Hermans

A red nose is the smallest mask in the world

Shane McFadyen

Sometimes you take things for granted. Winning masks some of the mistakes we're still making.

James Nesbitt

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

Alexander Herzen

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Andrew Fastow

I think I said on more than one occasion yesterday that I was greedy.

R. Robinson

I do not see this as an occasion for celebration,

William Penn

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

Jeffrey Hunter

It was more rugged than I had anticipated. It's beautiful. Sort of a frontier. The most you hear, other than the birds, are occasional planes passing overhead.

Leigh Hunt

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

John Bolton

There may be an occasion that we want the U.N. to properly run a program like this.

Bible Bible

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Eric Elliott

This is Casey's first Zone meet, and if she can rise to the occasion there is nothing stopping her.

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Michael Koryta

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

John Piper

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

Adam Allen

Some of our fliers get torn down, and we just have to go and put them back up.

Ken Holland

He's got a partially torn MCL, he's got a torn ACL, ... He's out 4-6 months.

Terry Greene

He's independent enough that he doesn't want us to go back there, and he's told us so. We're really torn about it.

Ian Goldin

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

Zig Ziglar

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Wyndham Lewis

Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

Kenneth Clarke

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

Khaled Hosseini

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Jack Welch

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

Henry Ford

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

James Richardson

If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.

Johnny Carson

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

James Beard

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.