Vacancy Quotes

When a man marries his mistress it creates a job vacancy. (James Goldsmith)
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams -- can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man. View quote
William Wordsworth
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. View quote
Samuel Johnson
You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. View quote
John Kennedy Toole
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. View quote
Robert Smithson
When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy. View quote
Sacha Guitry
... from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.) View quote
Mark Twain
A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast sorrow was there- The sweet cheat gone. View quote
Walter de la Mare
No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on... I will be sitting on it. View quote
Tite Kubo
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness, It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement; But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired, To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence. View quote
Martin Farquhar Tupper
I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her. (Graham Greene)
There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy. View quote
Harry Chapin
A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy: a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept Or one could weep because another wept. View quote
W. H. Auden
We go back home. We wait and then have dinner. We live these few hours. And we see ourselves alone in the house, facing each other, as never we saw ourselves, and we do not know what to do! It is a real drama of vacancy which is breaking loose. We are living together; our movements are in harmony, they touch and mingle. But all of it is empty. We do not long for each other, we can no longer expect each other, we have no dreams, we are not happy. It is a sort of imitation of life by phantoms, by beings who, in the distance are beings, but close by - so close - are phantoms! View quote
Henri Barbusse
That wasn't very godly,” Alec calls up to him. "And what has God to do with me?” Nicholas shouts back. "No voices speak to me out of any burning bush. No word at all. Hideous vacancy, monstrous indifference, and a senseless universe!” "Well,” says Alec cautiously, "I would think that was a good thing. Shouldn't you have grown out of this by now? What do you want meaning in the universe for, anyway? Nothing means anything! We're just here to go along for the adventure. View quote
Kage Baker
Oh how the Vacancy Laughed at them rushing by. "Turn again, flesh and brain, Only yourselves again! How far above the ape Differing in each shape, You with your regular Meaningless circles are!" View quote
Edith Sitwell
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy. View quote
Mitch McConnell
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. View quote
Mary Shelley
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. View quote
Ntozake Shange
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen. (Henry Laurens)
There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
The primary school is like the rope which the Indian juggler throws into the air to end in vacancy. View quote
R. H. Tawney
Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. View quote
H. G. Wells
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. View quote
Mark Twain