I Am Empty Quotes

Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.

I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.

A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach.

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any field, and historical research becomes an idle, empty activity.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

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.

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.

How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.

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

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.