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“If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.”

Ifs Thinking May Enough Speak Brain Talking Too Much Empty Tongue Thee

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.”

“Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Character Film Too Much Jokes Empty Rely Coming Out Woody Great Film

Author:Brett Gelman

“Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.”

May Reality Seems Loses Fantasy Too Much Empty

Author:Akira Toriyama

“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”

Mind Too Much Empty Boxes Chocolate Bedroom Drawers Box Of Chocolates

Book:The Portable Graham Greene

Source: The Portable Graham Greene

“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

“Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”

Giving Littles I Can Feelings Seems Grief Too Much Pure Empty Starting Smoke Settling Little Time Settling Down Grief Observed

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.”

Enough Stuff Half Too Much Empty Half Full Half Empty

Book:Then Again

Source: Then Again

“I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown”

Ifs Needs Said Faces Fall Watches Too Much Economic Television Industry Empty Stomach Beef Magnus Bane Broccoli Darcy Meltdowns Empty Stomach Hairdressing

Book:The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

“On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.”

Knows Seems Universe Sides Space Too Much Mountain Mass Empty Clouds

Book:To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in

Source: To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”

Feels Feelings Emotion Hell Too Much Empathy Empty Indifference Emptiness

Book:Midnight Bayou

Source: Midnight Bayou