Empty Quotes

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.
Jean Baudrillard

Woman, Nothing, Another

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
Ibrahim Babangida

Work, Long, Goes

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.
Jared Leto

Someone, Used, Found

Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.
Evan Davis

Human, Country, Order

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
Ricky Williams

Full, Hungry, Mine

If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
Anna Deavere Smith

Everyone, While, Three

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Jules Renard

Won, Space, Thinks

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

Love, Felt, Outside

According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.
Roy H. Williams

Time, Ocean, Actually

The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
Dennis Bergkamp

Life, Training, Big

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.
Dan Savage

Women, Forget, Pretty

What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
Aimee Semple McPherson

Self, Holy, Spirit

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
Lee Child

Writing, Three, Internet

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.
Robert Carlyle

Home, Greatest, Night

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock

Mind, Creativity, Space

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
Antonio Porchia

Everything, Knowing, Seen

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
Pedro Almodovar

Life, Strength, Loneliness

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.
David Viscott

Life, Reading, Useful

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
Ace Frehley

Mind, Long, Thinking

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Benjamin Whichcote

Themselves, Full, None

An empty canvas is full.
Robert Rauschenberg

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.
Lawrence Kasdan

Important, Tell, Story

With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
Jeff Goodell

Revolution, After, Effort

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
Talib Kweli

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.
Graham Norton

Love, Home, Live

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia

Keep, Hands, Sake

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Peggy Noonan

Politics, Place, Often

The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.
Kenny Chesney

Change, Last, Couple

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
Robert Falcon Scott

Life, Fear, Makes

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver

Life, Poetry, Put

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