Quotes with empty

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  • Alan Watts But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • William Carlos Williams Empty pockets make empty heads.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • George Sand Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Carole King He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
    Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
    Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
    And his hand come down empty...
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Eric Hoffer How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
    Passell - The Best (1974)
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    American writer and prominent socialite (1884 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Antonio Porchia I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Allen Ginsberg I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Ang Lee I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Nicholas Breton I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of fiends, and empty purse.
    Nicholas Breton
    English poet and novelist (1545 - 1626)
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  • Ben Affleck I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • William E. Vaughan If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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