Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank McCourt

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

John Lydon

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Absolutely. In our league, when you go to a game, you see five receivers on the field, a lot of four, three receivers. You see empty (backfield) in every situation. So if you don't have at least three really good (corners), it'll be long Sundays.

They were flying a lot of empty planes. They don't want that to happen again.

There's a lot of that empty nest moment.

Reggie Watts

I try not to eat right before I perform. It's better to perform on an empty stomach - it just feels better. You just feel like a leaner machine. You're not worrying about digesting things.

Rhys Ifans

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It wouldn't be good to have an empty building, would it?

This is social injustice of the highest magnitude. They're trying to empty the place out.

Benito Mussolini

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

Jane Fonda

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

John Irving

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Tomas Transtromer

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

Empty heads are very fond of long titles

Scott Drew

Even if you're in an empty gym, it's hard to make the 13 shots he did.

Everything around the Games is not as positive if there are empty seats in the building.

Henning Mankell

There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour.

George W. Bush

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

We went 15 straight weeks. We were kind of running on empty towards the end.

Veronica Roth

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

Rumi

When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

My will can control anything that’s empty.

Shiv Khera

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

Max Lucado

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

Miranda July

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").

Betty Williams

Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.

Charles Churchill

So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.

Maria Shriver

I'm a parent. We all want great futures for our kids. The after-school program helps to provide that for these kids. Otherwise many of them would go home to empty homes because their parents have to work.

Gerard Nerval

God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.

Richard Harris

I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service.

I was surprised at some of the things I saw. There were a lot more empty lots on the map.

Edmund White

I guess I felt I was lucky because history just happened to hand me all these empty niches, and it did fuel me. It is always exciting when you tap into some new subject matter.