Best empty & rooms Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.”

Writing Stuff Rooms Paper Sitting Empty Performing Interviews

Author:Randy Newman

“I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.”

Way Needs Humans Said Soul Home Eye Earth Voice Rooms Right Now Empty Thanks Dawn Extras Helpful Gates Strain Hints

Author:Kiersten White

“When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.”

People Two Light Choices Sides Rooms Empty Lit Two Sides

Book:A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Source: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

“We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.”

Rooms Empty Locked Empty Rooms

Author:Nicolas Roeg

“Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.”

Ifs Mean Rooms Half Audience Standing Empty Meetings Smell Theatre Atmosphere Restaurants Half Empty Auditoriums

Author:David Ogilvy

“I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!”

I Can Space Rooms Wall Empty

Author:Semir Zeki

“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.”

Heart May Rooms Empty Letters Crowded Decipher Crowded Places

Book:The Blaze of the Poui: Poems

Source: The Blaze of the Poui: Poems

“I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.”

Ifs I Can Mother Wish Felt Rooms Benefits Empty Performances Performers Teresa Hospice Empty Rooms

Author:Bea Arthur

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

Rooms Empty Clock Loud Emptiness Tick

Book:Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

Source: Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

World Writing Persons Self Humanity Rooms Company Virtue Written Loneliness Solitude Conversation Empty Letters Assuming Prime Telephones My Thoughts Imaginative Immediacy Empty Rooms

Author:Vivian Gornick

“At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Book Whole Body Light Wanted Stars Space Rooms Painting Hair Bed Moon Window Empty Lays Rounds Dancer Astronaut Helmet Empty Space Milky Way Points Of Light Bed Time

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”

Ifs Humans May Art Book Enough Lines Rooms Company Empty Library Busy Crowds Ease Human Life Leisure Art And Science

Author:William Hazlitt

“It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.”

Able Rooms Brain Doors Empty Vices Corners

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.”

Perfect Rooms Doors Internet Empty Free Speech Diversion Empty Rooms

Author:Clifford Stoll

“The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.”

Giving Rooms Empty

Author:Mother Teresa

“I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage.”

Ifs I Can Humor Funny Guy Speak Rooms Stage Right Now Empty Blow Tonight Empty Stage

Author:Bill Hicks

“You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.”

Needs Able Actors Stuff Walks Rooms Empty Paint Backgrounds Bullshit Great Actors Markers Condescending Empty Rooms

Author:William Friedkin

“What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.”

Mind Stills Rooms Position Wall Quiet Sitting Empty Wicked Continuing Pillow Quiet Room

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.”

Ifs Thinking Sound Voice Space Rooms Emotion Empty Chords Minimalism Empty Space Coordinates

Author:Pharrell Williams

“An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.”

Stories Happens Waiting Rooms Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Charlotte Moss

“Death is the room that is always empty.”

Rooms Empty

Book:The Aristos

Source: The Aristos

“It's very hard to be a screenwriter. I remember getting a couple of awards. I got a PEN West award a million years ago when I did Running on Empty, and I sat in the room with all these writers. They wrote everything from novels to non-fiction to children's books to journalism - any kind of writing - and I realized that there was no one in the room who would ever read anything I'd written.”

“Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.”

Kind Mean Feelings Seems Dark Rooms Pay Attention Comfortable Empty Add Obvious Technique Pay Attention Stomach Shut Up Reluctant Dark Room Footnotes Empty Stomach

Author:Terence McKenna

“The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?”

“Some huge work goes on growing. How could one person´s words matter? Where you walk heads pop from the ground. What is one seed head compared to you? On my death day I´ll know the answer. I have cleared this house, so that your work can, when it comes, fill every room. I slide like an empty boat pulled over the water.”

Knows Persons Matter House Water Answers Walks Rooms Growing Huge Goes On Empty Pops Seeds Boat Slides Words Matter

Author:Rumi

“I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.”

Thinking Humans Certain Left Rooms Taken Wall Shadow Empty Mark Photograph Disappear Absence Etc Empty Rooms

Author:Mona Kuhn

“I like to have a drink or two, but I cut down on that. It was getting a little out of control. Two of the guys in the band don't even drink at all. We just riff off each other man. We're just so, so eye-to-eye with our sense of humour that we can just sit in an empty room and entertain ourselves for hours.”

Men Littles Two Eye Guy Hours Rooms Cutting Humour Drink Band Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Jordan Buckley

“I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Shows Rooms Half Empty Bases Sells What If Paranoia Half Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Ladyhawke

“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.”

Firsts Hours Rooms Results Fine First Time Empty Blow Impression Hotel Yield Hotel Rooms Foreign Places

Author:Stefan Sagmeister

“The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare to venture there? She doubted. Jumping off a cliff was a flashy sort of courage, but a man would need true strength and valor to break through those padlocked doors. There were dark, uncharted spaces within her that had been built to house love, and even she was afraid to explore them. Terrified to learn just how vast and how achingly empty they truly were.”

“I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.”

Play School Used Hours Space Rooms Party College High School Empty Piano Buddy Empty Rooms

Author:Rachael Yamagata

“As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us.”

School Space Rooms Building Sitting Built Empty Tables Library Clubs Dimensions Breakfast Gym Rehearsal Empty Rooms

Author:Judd Nelson

“I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.”

Said School America Girl Rooms Teach Laughing Taught Goes On Drama Empty England Screens Burning Candle Empty Rooms Candles Burning

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.”

People Used Found House Rooms Break Empty Comforting Empty Houses

Author:Jared Leto

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

Ifs Men Dream Left Rooms Talking Television Planets Tvs Communication Standing Empty Communicate Stranger Mysterious Stoves Empty Rooms

Book:America

Source: America

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”

Heart Rooms Wise Empty Appreciation Emptiness Broken Heart Heart To Heart Home Is Where The Heart Is Great Hearts Empty Rooms Empty Heart Heart Full Of Love Full Hearts

Book:Voces reunidas

Source: Voces reunidas

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

Way Wells Long Opportunity Imagination Space Rooms Known Empty Well Known

Book:Golden

Source: Golden

“Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”

Feels Rooms Audience Laughing Impossible Empty Silly Hysteria Invisible Monsters Empty Rooms

Book:Invisible Monsters: A Novel

Source: Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”

“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”

“It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.”

Ifs Thinking Made Stills Sometimes Faces Night Found Left Voice Rooms Comfort Empty Rings Despite Disturbing Thinking Of Him

Book:Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

“A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".”

Faces Rooms Flower Thousand Empty Desert Plastic Empty Rooms Plastic Flowers

Author:Frederick Salomon Perls

“Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or more – chickabiddies, you’re dancing on a hot griddle all the time. You don’t have time to think about anything else. And if you’ve only got one or two, it’s almost harder. You have room left over – empty spaces that you think you’ve got to fill up.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Said Two Mother Three Left Space Rooms Four Empty Ears Harder Hot Dancing Being A Mother Time To Think Empty Space

Author:Sharon Creech

“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").”

Together House Rooms Modern Empty Furniture Empty Rooms Birthmarks

Book:No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

“Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy man at that table. "Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.”

Men Feelings Rooms Fantasy Empty Tables Evening Very Happy Happy Man

Book:When he was wicked

Source: When he was wicked

“That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements in the living room. They were like busy little brainless birds, fluttering in and out of their nest at all hours of the day or night, so involved in the pleasure of nest building that they hadn’t noticed that it had been empty for years.”

Years Littles Night Parent Hours Pleasure Rooms Grace Movement Building Arms Listening Involved Mets Bird Empty Busy Nests Living Room Fluttering Brainless

Book:Shiver

Source: Shiver

“We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.”

People Way Two Reason Facts Rooms Cases Drink Empty Beer Kitchen No Reason Irresponsible Living Room

Book:What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Source: What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

“Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been heard tumbling and tossing, as the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason, and mounted one on top of another, and lunged and plunged in the darkness or the daylight (for night and day, month and year ran shapelessly together) in idiot games, until it seemed as if the universe were battling and tumbling, in brute confusion and wanton lust aimlessly by itself.”

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.”

Giving Self Enough Waiting Rooms Too Much Doors Standing Empty Corners Sensations Empty Rooms

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

“At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.”

Writing Book Ends Would Be Lasts White Rooms Air Wind Pages Empty Silent Sat Chairs Sheets Fluttering

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

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