Empty Quotes - page 4

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me. (Joan Miró)
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens, to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
Oh, how empty is praise when it reflects back to its origin! View quote
Montesquieu
One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you. I had been broken beyond repair. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
I was like a lost moon - my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation - that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. (Jack Kerouac)
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. View quote
Ang Lee
An empty canvas is full. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces; Between stars -- on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home; To scare myself with my own desert places. View quote
Robert Frost
I salute my desires with a bow., were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me. View quote
Suman Pokhrel
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor. View quote
W. H. Auden
One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out? View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; - for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret. (Emil Cioran)
I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction. View quote
Emil Cioran
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken. View quote
Robert Fripp
Canada is a vast and empty country. View quote
Stephen Harper
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. View quote
Joseph Addison