Best empty & shows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.”

People Ifs Shows Film Clear Stage Empty Editors Stink Manipulative

Author:D. B. Sweeney

“Mitt Romney was a guest on 'The Tonight Show' on NBC. It's interesting — you have an empty suit trying to please everyone, and then Romney comes out.”

Trying Shows Interesting Please Empty Suits Tonight Guests Romney Nbc Trying To Please Everyone

Author:David Letterman

“Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?”

Writing Long Shows Problem Pages Empty Awful Shells Composition Find Me Here And Now Lonesome Empty Shell

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show.”

Feels May Shows Home Past Empty Surface Harvest Fascination Goodwill Supper

Book:The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

“Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.”

Writing Mean Shows White Empty Praise Wit Teeth

Author:John Brown

“John Kerry says that he wants to debate President Bush once a month until the election. This could be a risky move for Senator Kerry. If Bush doesn't show up for the debates, John Kerry may end up debating an empty chair. And that could be pretty much a toss up as to which one has the better personality.”

Ifs Want May Ends Shows Moving President Months Personality Empty Election Debate Chairs Senators President Bush Better Person Toss John Kerry

Author:Jay Leno

“But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.”

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Author:Edgar Guest

“It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poor Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretence

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.”

Way Years Real Country Whole Shows Feelings Film Spirit Emotion Behinds Forever Photography Empty Landscape Memorable Geography Stay With Me Good Photography Stay With Me Forever

Author:Martin Scorsese

“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretense Pretension

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.”

“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

“I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Shows Care Guy Crazy Empty Should Have West China Museums Old Guys

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.”

Thinking Heart Stills Shows Faces Fall Wish Pieces Broken Hundred Empty Glasses Breasts Adore Rags Broken Glass

Book:The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

Source: The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

“They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.”

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Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.”

Ifs Shows Vision Arms Sorrow Empty Paint Convinced Supreme If I Could Canvas Infant Looking Down

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”

Writing Two Ideas Stories Shows Seems Together Jobs Sun Clear One Thing Sky Right Now Empty No Idea Islands Something New Buried Sailing Good Story Dump

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.”

Shows Hands Lying Empty Palms Ceilings

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

“Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.”

Mind Shows Speak Silence Empty Silence Speaks Empty Mind Empty Words

Book:The Fire’s Stone

Source: The Fire’s Stone

“Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?" I made a big show of glancing around the empty room. "I don't want to keep you from the mob of fans beating down your door." "Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it's not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need my help.”

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Book:Bloodlines

Source: Bloodlines

“I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.”

People Want Children Shows Walks Jokes Empty My Children Show Business

Author:Dave Chappelle

“My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.”

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Book:Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!

Source: Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!

“Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.”

Thinking Men Mind Real States Philosophy Shows Happiness Evil Left Differences Doubt Greatness Empty Aim Checks No Doubt Emptiness

Author:Seneca the Younger

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