“The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.” WritingResultsCasesProducePoetBedEmptyOriginalsIndependenceCookingDesertDirtyIslandsBottlesVersesSheetsExceptionalImpressiveManlyLaundryFree VerseSqualorRobinson CrusoeEmpty BottlesUnmade Beds Author:W. H. Auden
“Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!” PhilosophyResultsFictionDarknessTruth IsEmptyUselessEmpiresProvenWreckageLumberMight Is Right Author:Anton Szandor LaVey
“Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.” TryingMindStatesRealityPastResultsFindingsEternalCapableEmptyUltimateFocusedNew ThingsTimelessGatheringLiving OnCreativenessUltimate Reality Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.” ThinkingMenUniverseCoursesResultsColdBearsEmptyLogicRelationPhilosopherAbstractArtificialIntrospective Author:Albert Schweitzer
“Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.” FirstsHoursRoomsResultsFineFirst TimeEmptyBlowImpressionHotelYieldHotel RoomsForeign Places Author:Stefan Sagmeister
“And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.” YearsResultsCompanyPositiveYears AgoStandingEmptyImpactRecoveryOperationsFactoriesLoanPositive Impact Author:Barack Obama
“Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.” WantHumansHeartCarePassionResultsSilenceSituationPracticeLaughingVirtueMankindLessonsEmptyLogicLipsVicesDareArtificialConventionalSeverePettyImpositionVice And VirtueLocalitySophistryColorlessConventional Life Author:Charles Robert Maturin
“An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.” WorldWellsRealityActionSufferingResultsImpossibleChangedElementsReflectionCommitmentEmptyTransformationDimensionsIdleDeprivedChatterDichotomyPedagogyBlahPedagogy Of The OppressedEmpty WordsIdle Chatter Author:Paulo Freire
“Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.” MenDarkResultsEmptyLustLust For PowerEmpty Places Book:Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four Source: Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four
“What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?” ThreeSpaceResultsEmptyKillingPanicEldersSanctuaryParkingParking Space Book:Skulduggery Pleasant - Source: Skulduggery Pleasant -
“I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.” GivingYearsSelfWholeHomeMotherGirlThreeFatherResultsGoneMissingOne DayEmptyFilledThree YearsGrandfatherMy GrandfatherFilled Up Author:Gayle Forman