“In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.” PeopleLooksStoriesFeelingsHappensPastImaginationMemoriesMy OwnFireHappenedAirStageEventsActivityEvidenceEmptyPerformancesTheaterPhotographerPhotographAtmosphereVisualsAnticipationMy ImaginationAnalogiesPersonal ExperiencesFingerprintsEmpty Stage Author:Michael Kenna
“I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.” PeopleThinkingWorldSoundHappenedModernSmartEmptyCompellingModern WorldVery SmartAlluring Author:Rob Bell
“I would argue that the truth of Easter does not depend on whether there was an empty tomb, or whether anything happened to the body of Jesus. ... I do not see the Christian tradition as exclusively true, or the Bible as the unique and infallible revelation of God. ... It makes no historical sense to say, 'Jesus was killed for the sins of the world.' ... I am one of those Christians who does not believe in the virgin birth, nor in the star of Bethlehem, nor in the journeys of the wisemen, nor in the shepherds coming to the manger, as facts of history.” WorldBelieveDoeFactsBodyChristianJesusStarsSinHappenedJourneyDependsBirthUniqueTraditionEmptyHistoricalArguingRevelationsVirginsEasterTombsShepherdsInfallibleBethlehemVirgin Birth Author:Marcus Borg
“In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a little bit like this." In the beginning, there isn't even a theme. It's like getting the whole world at your feet - to empty your mind of everything that's ever happened before, to get an empty space.” WorldMindLittlesWholeBodyBitsSpaceHappenedFeetLittle BitModelsEmptyWhole WorldThemeEmpty Space Author:Rei Kawakubo
“For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.” IfsKnowsFirstsTwoDifferentFatherSoundFourHappenedFirst TimeEmptyAddMake SenseLeaving MeCornyTanksDifferent DirectionsKilling Yourself Author:Paula White
“I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsHeartFeelingsFeltSpaceRoomsSecretHappenedBabyMy HeartFirst TimeEmptyStaringWithout You Book:Lone Wolf: A Novel Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel
“I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over.” SaidRealizingLinesSeeingHappenedEmptyMirrorsDumbBewilderedDumb Things Author:Kim Harrison
“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.” ThinkingFeelsShouldHumansDifferentMomentsMightImaginationMemoriesHuman BeingsWorryFantasyOur LivesHappenedPercentEmptyDifficultyShameSticks Author:Joko Beck
“Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.” MindBodyHandsSimpleSunGoneFireHappenedSkyHusbandEmptyFilledWestSettingSettingsHeatIndifferentEmpty Life Book:The Antelope Wife: A Novel Source: The Antelope Wife: A Novel
“But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?” KnowsMenFirstsReasonHandsSeemsAgeLeftChurchReligiousRaceHappenedWorshipEmptyDenyBellsTowersBackwardsPalmsWorship GodDialectMoney And PowerEmpty Hands Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot