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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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• 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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• In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.

  Leopold Hartley Grindon

  Work, Pride, Soul

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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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• 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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• An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Stupid, Ugly Things

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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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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• when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Gourds, Use, World

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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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• 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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• The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Intelligent, Ghouls, Zombie

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• We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone on the phone,cold and empty beneath the covers.

  Patri Friedman

  Phones, Lovers, Cold

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• The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, Regret, Years

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.96, Modern Library

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• If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

  Aristotle

  Desire, Would Be, Goes On

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1729, Princeton University Press

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• The mind of the Buddha is perfect because it is empty and yet it contains all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfect, Mind

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• Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

  Ovid

  Beautiful, House, Shining

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