Quotes with filling

  • The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
  • Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
  • We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
  • We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
  • Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
    The Green Fields of the Mind, Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • William Butler Yeats Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • William Butler Yeats Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • William Adams Brown Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
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  • Jules Renard Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Benjamin Franklin Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William E. Vaughan Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Andy Rooney The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • James Boswell We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ernest Hemingway When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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