Hollow Quotes

From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.

Scary movies are my favorite. My kids love Hocus Pocus. I'm a big fan of Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger.

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

I hope people will find the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] a whole lot more than hollow.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests.

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

The world is hollow. It's a lot to take in. Like cracking an egg and finding nothing inside. Or a full grown elephant.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

Catherine went still. Her eyes closed against a sudden wet sting. 'Did you accept her proposal?' Leo nuzzled tenderly into the hollow beneath her ear. 'Of course not, pea-goose.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart