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Quotes About Empty

The sky is grey, the air hot. I walk back across the mown lawn loving the smell and the houses so completely it leaves my heart empty.
~ Unknown
If the heart was fragile, like a porcelain cup, and a great loss shattered it, all the time and kindness in the world couldn't hide the ugly cracks. Once the precious liquid of love had seeped away, you were left dry. Dry and empty. Echoing
~ Unknown
I really loved touring with my band, but it felt like we would spend a lot of time playing in empty rooms - empty clubs. We had some good successes, but it's so physically hard to load up a van and drive all day.
~ Fred Armisen
I don't feel I'm fighting to reach this huge audience; it just happens. I go on stage before the audience arrives and look out to this vast empty house. There's something therapeutic about taking in the ring where you'll perform.
~ Danielle de Niese
Dexter did not kick the can. And now Dexter is It. Again. You may wonder, how can this be? How can Dexter's night hunt be reduced to this? Always before there has been some frightful twisted predator awaiting the special attention of frightful twisted Dexter—and here I am, stalking an empty Chef Boyardee ravioli can that is guilty of nothing worse than bland sauce.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Except for thinking up reasons I'm allowed to skip the gym, my schedule is almost totally empty. (Today's reason is because I have a cold. Yesterday's was the dogs seemed sad.
~ Jen Lancaster
Kate picked up her coffee cup, frowning when she saw it was empty. Did you drink my coffee? Yes. I was feeling aggressive.
~ Jennifer Crusie
In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
~ William Butler Yeats
I remember one day going in the studio to sing and then going to work with three separate songwriters before I came back in the studio. I was running on empty.
~ John Waite
Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
~ Unknown
A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.
~ Unknown
Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea. Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink. Is the glass part full or part empty? Take another sip. And now?
~ Vera Nazarian
Autumn in New YorkIs often mingled with pain.Dreamers with empty handsMay sigh for exotic lands;It's Autumn in New York,It's good to live it again.
~ Vernon Duke
The diameters of nuclei range from 0.8 femtometers for hydrogen to 15 femtometers for uranium, where 1 femtometer equals 10-15 meter. The diameter of the hydrogen atom is about 0.11 nanometer, while that of the uranium atom is 0.35 nanometer, where 1 nanometer equals 10-9 meter. So, roughly speaking, the nucleus of the atom is a million times smaller than the atom itself. Matter is, indeed, mostly empty space.
~ Victor J. Stenger
My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers.
~ Victoria Chang
I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.
~ Henny Youngman
Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.
~ Peter Kreeft
In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We have abolished that help, and in its place we will rule,' offering no help at all: taking but not giving, ruling but not obeying, telling but not listening, taking life and not giving it. The slayers govern now, without interference; the dreams of mankind have become empty.
~ Philip K. Dick
You know the old brownshirt term for people who spin philosophy? Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street brawls.
~ Philip K. Dick
the joy of awakening each morning knowing there were all those empty hours ahead to be filled only with work.
~ Philip Roth
Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
~ David Levithan
there was an almost terrifying lack of intelligence in his eyes.
~ David Weber
The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
and then the figure, turning slowly round, discovered to Frederic the fleshless jaws and empty sockets of a skeleton, wrapt in a hermit's cowl. "Angels of peace protect me!" cried Frederic, recoiling. "Deserve their protection!" said the spectre.
~ Horace Walpole