Empty Quotes - Page 2

• An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Canvas, Wonder, Certain

  "The Painter's Object" by Myfanwy Evans Piper, (p. 53), 1937.

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• Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

  Arthur Koestler

  Stars, Faces, Outer Space

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Loneliness, Space, Cinema

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

  Ace Frehley

  Thinking, Keys, Play

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• Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Strong, Fear, People

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• To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast

  Lee Haney

  Beautiful, Real, Fit

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  Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Friends

  "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey". Documentary, Action, Biography, 2000.

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• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  Saadi

  Body, Spirit, Belly

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• To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Emptiness

  "Men Who Have Walked with God". Book by Sheldon Cheney, 1992.

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• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, People, Tragedy

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Patience, Beach, Nature

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

  Antonio Porchia

  Hands, Sake

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Space, Interesting, Outer Space

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• No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

  William Cowper

  Men, Political, Politics

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• To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Reality, Fierce

  Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.116, Oxford University Press

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• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

  Mary Oliver

  Poetry, Way, Baskets

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• No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Heart, Cups

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 15, 2014

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• An empty canvas is full.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Canvas, Empty Canvas

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• Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

  Nora Roberts

  Empathy, Feelings, Too Much

  Nora Roberts (2002). “Midnight Bayou”, p.120, Penguin

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• Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

  Charles Simic

  Perspective, Ships, Bottles

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• I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

  Boy George

  Successful, Felt

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• I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

  Anish Kapoor

  Years, Two, Lines

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• At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.

  Rose Tremain

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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