“Poseidon grinned. "You're doing well with those new cabins, by the way. I suppose this means I can claim all those other sons and daughters of mine and send you some siblings next summer." "Ha-ha." Poseidon reeled in his empty line. I shifted my feet. "Um, you were kidding, right?" Poseidon gave me one of his inside-joke winks, and I still didn't know whether he was serious or not.” KnowsWayWellsMeanStillsI CanNextLinesFeetMinesSeriousSonSummerJokesDaughterEmptyClaimsSiblingCabinsSon And DaughterPoseidonInside Jokes Author:Rick Riordan
“He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! And he is--Oh, well! He is just himself, and I miss him, and miss him, and miss him. The whole world seems empty and aching. I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me. But maybe you've loved somebody, too, and you know? If you have, I don't need to explain; if you haven't, I can't explain.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsBelieveWellsI CanTwoWholeSeemsBeautifulHateMissingHavensHumourEmptyI HateDon't BelieveSensesWhole WorldMoonlightOh Well Author:Jean Webster
“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
“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?” WorldWellsDoeMatterBodyHandsRealityLightPastLanguageSpaceKnownEmptyYour BodyIndianDivisionSophisticatedTribesWell KnownEmpty SpacePast PresentPast Present And FuturePoints Of LightIndian Tribes Book:Sexing the Cherry Source: Sexing the Cherry
“Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse.” WellsDogStandingEmptyMeatWheelsPlasticSauceTinCorridorsOh WellSpaghettiDog Food Author:Charlie Higson
“He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.” WellsHeartEnoughBigsMightSpaceTearsEmptyChestsEmpty SpaceTreasured Author:Elizabeth Hoyt
“Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men have struck on this day, has two distinct paths he might travel in his life. He might walk out into the world with a wounded heart, intent on sharing his mad hatred with every person he passes; or, he might start out anew with an empty heart, and he should take care to fill it up with only proud things from then on, so as to nourish his desolate mind-set and cultivate something positive or new.” ThinkingMenWorldShouldMindWellsHeartPersonsSaidTwoMightCareSufferingWalksPathProudEmptyHatredMadBlowTake CareThis DayWoundedMind SetDesolateWounded HeartEmpty Heart Book:The Sisters Brothers Source: The Sisters Brothers
“I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.” IfsWellsMayMadeI CanRealMatterCharacterLightPastRoomsFateEmptySuicideCommitRealizationClockElectricDeceivingShellsCheerfulEnthusiasticBrillianceStarksYour RoomElectric LightClock TickingEmpty Shell Author:Sylvia Plath
“This doesn't mean you're getting a discount." Audrey heaved a mock sigh. "Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then." Gnome choked on the soup. "I'm old enough to be your grandfather!" Audrey winked at him, gathering the empty bags. "But you're not.” WellsMeanEnoughEmptyFavorsBagsGrandfatherSoupSighGatheringMockDiscountsGnomeOh WellAudreyPlies Book:Fate's Edge Source: Fate's Edge
“I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” KnowsBelieveWellsMightHappensCareLife IsLyingUniverseGamesI BelieveEnjoyWorryAliveJokesEmptyLuckBlindChaosI Believe InBackgroundsNoiseGirlfriendSheerWho CaresI'm AliveLife Is A GameAmerican GodsBackground Noise Author:Neil Gaiman
“Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. “Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.” PeopleTryingWellsSaidDoneTurnsNextLaughingBeatsStandingEmptyLuckGreenImpressionChineseConcentrationFrankDeckWell DoneAthenaOlympusHandcuffsMark Of AthenaFrank ZhangCentaursIguanas Author:Rick Riordan
“Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.” KnowsWritingWellsSaidBookDreamSchoolLastsSecretOne DayKissingSummerEmptyMeetingsUpsetGirlfriendClassroomTeaseLast SummerFunny Harry Potter Author:J. K. Rowling
“Gansey appeared beside Blue in the doorway. He shook his empty bottle at her. "Fair trade," he told her in a way that indicated he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage entirely so that he could tell Blue that he had selected a fair-trade coffee beverage so that she could tell him well done with your carbon footprint and all that jazz. Blue said, "Better recycle that bottle.” WayWellsSaidDoneFairsEmptyBlueTradeJazzCoffeeBottlesCarbonDoorwaysFootprintSelectedWell DoneGanseyBeveragesFair TradeCarbon FootprintEmpty Bottles Book:The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2) Source: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)
“This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.” WellsMayLawOrderLibertyRevolutionEmptyReactionsPhrasesMenaceLaw And OrderOften IsJargonRadicalismSoapbox Author:Frank I. Cobb
“I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.” PeopleWantWellsStatesUseBlackMemoriesUnitedRaceRolesTeachUnited StatesClearTalentPrideEmptyAnd LoveImportanceBlack Race Author:John Henrik Clarke
“Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the sophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.” PeopleWellsDoeMatterUseTogetherMovingYoungPureEmptyContactMotiveSandMeaninglessSophisticatedFormalNaiveMachineryScornPolitenessFormalityMoving PartsLubrication Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.” HumansWellsMomentsRunningPainStrongCausesSpaceDealsEmptyVictimFilledSpotsEmptinessAttachmentDistractionGet OverLife And LoveSomething BetterSingle MomEmpty SpaceFeeling EmptyExcruciating Pain Author:Yasmin Mogahed
“We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.” PeopleThinkingWantFeelsHumansWellsFactsStoriesRealityFacesOrderNationsSidesViewsProtectEmptyFilledIncludingUglyOfficialsWant UAffirmative Author:Bill Moyers