Quotes with fills

  • This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
  • Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
  • Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
  • If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
  • There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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  • Joseph Addison Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Buddha A jug fills drop by drop.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • James Joyce All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Vilanch As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Events cast long shadows before.
    One such event would be a war.
    But how are shadows to be seen
    When total darkness fills the screen?
    Poems, 1913-1956 Alphabet [Alfabet] from Five Childrens Songs (1934
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • William Shakespeare Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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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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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bono Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Beck Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
    Spin magazine, July 1994
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • William Blake One thought fills immensity.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Blaise Pascal The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Johnson The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Alison Lurie There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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  • Washington Irving There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Moses Hadas This book fills a much-needed gap.
    Moses Hadas
    American teacher, translator and classical scholar (1900 - 1966)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Willem De Kooning Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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