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Quotes About Vacant

Geoff stared into Eric's vacant eyes and thought seriously about going into a mad panic: the sort of panic where you pull your hair out, eat some of it, then run around the room with your pants on your head screaming like a girl.
~ Peter Ward
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
~ Gavin Newsom
To the viewer, who has little emotional investment in how the work gets done, art made primarily to display technical virtuosity is often beautiful, striking, elegant...and vacant.
~ David Bayles
Horrible house! Iris shivered. She hated it. A gracious well-built house, harmoniously furnished and decorated (Ruth Lessing was never at fault!). And curiously, frighteningly vacant. They didn't live there. They occupied it. As soldiers, in a war, occupied some lookout post.
~ Agatha Christie
Her voice was as dead as the summer before last. (Nevada Gas)
~ Raymond Chandler
Es gibt nichts, was leerer aussieht als ein leeres Schwimmbecken
~ Raymond Chandler
It is a vacant vista, the acme of opulent American dreariness Ann has for some reason married into. I feel like getting up and walking out onto the lawn—waiting for my son in the grass.
~ Richard Ford
The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.
~ Perry Brass
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
~ William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
~ William Cowper
As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.
~ Scott Adams
No car was in the driveway.
~ Jane O'Connor
It was totally empty, not a soul left at all,
~ Jason Hall
While obsession with one's personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
~ Kate Cann
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
If that king was unsuitable in his service and duty...then his place will never be vacant and a foot soldier will lead the way though he remains nameless
~ Prakhar Singh
My mind, as is so often the case these days, was totally blank.
~ Jean Shepherd
It has been estimated that one-third of the 139 square miles designated "Detroit" is now vacant-land-prairie. That's crime.
~ Alice Randall
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.
~ Moby
There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house.
~ yoshikawa eiji
There were the twins, faces vacant with concentration as they walloped small red balls attached to paddles. Pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a . . . They'd been jai-alai-ing all this time. Despite himself, Dexter smiled.
~ Jennifer Egan
For the vacant nest and silent song, Hope was there, and laughed me out of sadness; Whispering, Winter will not linger long!
~ Emily Bronte
And now, before the door, I dared not open, lest a face I never saw before Stare vacant into mine And ask my business there.
~ Emily Dickinson
The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years.
~ Richard Stanley