Empty Quotes - Page 15

• Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.

  Rose Macaulay

  Moving, Writing, Mind

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.148, A&C Black

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• Women are more accommodating. If a woman drinks the last glass of apple juice in the refrigerator, she'll make more apple juice. If a man drinks the last glass of apple juice, he'll just put back the empty container.

  Rita Rudner

  Men, Glasses, Apples

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• Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
  [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
  Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

  Ovid

  Departed, No Friends, Way

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• The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Emptiness, Loud, Insignificant

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• No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Space, Leaving, Needs

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.

  Bert Greene

  Food, Fall, Artist

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• Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

  Jacques Torres

  Food, Cooking, Rewards

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• Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

  Joan Jett

  Way, Spirit, Music And Lyrics

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
  As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

  John Brown

  Writing, Mean, White

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• Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Curiosity, May, Littles

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• Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

  Theodore Parker

  Truth, Home, Doors

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Sermons of Religion”, p.22

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• Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma. ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Memories, Ocean, Fog

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

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• What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Needs

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• Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

  Pindar

  Empty Mind, Envy, Mind

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• while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Men, Class

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• The greatness that would make us grave,
  Is but an empty thing.
  What more than mirth would mortals have?
  The cheerful man's a king.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Kings, Greatness, Men

  Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1814). “Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald”, p.14

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• My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.

  Maxine Kumin

  Writing, Needs, Nests

  Maxine Kumin (1996). “Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories”

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• I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

  Emily Carr

  Going Out, Want, Lasts

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.351, D & M Publishers

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• Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

  Constance Rourke

  Humor, Men, Tools

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• I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

  Rita Hayworth

  Happiness, Want, Reviews

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Moon, Thinking, What If

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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Self, Vanity, Glasses

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• Life like an empty dream flits by.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845). “The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices”, p.656

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• And empty heads console with empty sound.

  Alexander Pope

  Sound, Speech, Console

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.356

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• Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

  Karl Marx

  Data, Junk, Bigs

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