(319 quotes found)
“I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.”
Antonio Porchia
“My witness is the empty sky.”
Jack Kerouac
“You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.”
Johnny Rotten
“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”
Mao Tse-Tung
“If the pocket is empty, the judge is deaf.”
Russian Proverb
“After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the endu”
Vince Lombardi
“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.”
Charles Simic
“What? Ridden on a horse?''Yes''You're using coconuts!''What?''You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together!''So?”
Monty Python
“Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier than certain pictures.”
Wassily Kandinsky
