Filled In Quotes

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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• But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Book, Passion, Thinking

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• So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Artist, Missing, Mind

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• Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.

  Max Beckmann

  War, Ocean, Space

  "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

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• It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a pupil a remark which equally applies to Leonardo or Michelangelo . But there can be no doubt that the basic features were conceived by a single mind; that Pythagoras of Samos was both the founder of a new religious philosophy, and the founder of Science, as the word is understood today.

  Arthur Koestler

  Religious, Philosophy, Doubt

  Arthur Koestler (2017). “The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe”, p.27, Penguin UK

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• It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I liked watching her. The part, though, isn't filled in. When Baker announces that she's gotten too used to the madness of Afghanistan, that she's worried she's thinking of it as normal, the sentiment comes out of nowhere. The dramatic arc in "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is nonexistent. The movie evaporates in the mind like water in the Afghan desert.

  David Edelstein

  Jobs, Thinking, Water

  "Tina Fey's War-Zone 'Foxtrot' Falls Out Of Step". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

  John Lennon

  Weekend, Lines, Next

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• Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.

  John Pfahl

  Dream, Drawing, Years

  John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”

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• It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Loneliness, Waiting, Trying

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3815, Delphi Classics

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• Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Book, Fire, Light

  Meg Wolitzer (2014). “Belzhar”, p.141, Penguin

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• I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I did a lot with the sewing machine at home - - for Barbie or for carnival or just for fun. Then I saw this ad in the newspaper. And as young girls sometimes do some stupid things, I filled in the coupon and sent in my photos.

  Heidi Klum

  Girl, Fashion, Fun

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• Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

  David Levithan

  Fragments, Lost, There Is Hope

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Believe, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

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• The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Reality, Leaving, Principles

  "Chelsea Roff: Science Set Free — An Interview with Rupert Sheldrake". Interview with Chelsea Roff, intentblog.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.

  Aidan Turner

  Acting, Want, Sometimes

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.  Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the Loneliness really begins.  Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought.  When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away.  But it doesn't go away.  So some of us do instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Loneliness, Book, Class

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• I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

  Bill Gates

  Weather, People, Needs

  Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.

  Conan O'Brien

  Basketball, Daughter, Dad

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• I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.

  Lloyd Jones

  Dad, Laughter, Children

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• Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Religious, People, Goal

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• From what I hear, [ "Fifty Shades of Grey" ] is not a way that I feel like I need to be turned on or like a hole that needs to be filled in me.

  Lena Dunham

  Needs, Fifty, Shade

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Acceptance, Love Is

  Pope Benedict XVI's Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate, w2.vatican.va. June 29, 2009.

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• We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Grieving, Dying

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• It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

  Haruki Murakami

  Needs, World, Pay

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