Best empty & white Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.”

Ifs Men Made Earth Law Father Given Nations White Race Blood Changed Broken Empty Regard Seeds Hungry Chosen Spots Penalties White Man Covenant Cain Ordinances Hungry Man African Race

Author:Brigham Young

“I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

Ifs Men Giving Looks White Money Hell Society Empty Bottom Superiors Convince Pockets Black People Superiority Lowest Presidency White Man Convincing Noticing

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.”

Mind Done Facts Artist White Painting Pure Tradition Roots Empty Method Embrace Starting Flying Spots Emptiness Realising Strokes Brushes Penetrate Spontaneity Apparitions

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.”

Book Today Black White Silence Paper Empty Screens Canvas Sheets

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.”

Men Feels White Sun Sea Sky Kings Speech Ocean Empty Gold Breaths Green Fingers Ice Bells Thrones Palaces Unreal Silk Gems Weariness Sparkle Brass Copper Jester

Book:Kull: Exile of Atlantis

Source: Kull: Exile of Atlantis

“The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!”

Night White Streets Cold Beats Window Empty Snow Blast Dreary Window Panes Empty Streets

Book:Songs of the sea, with other poems

Source: Songs of the sea, with other poems

“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

“Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.”

Play Form White Return Picks Empty Clean Guitar Cups Ties Tunes Belts Dojo

Book:Zen Guitar

Source: Zen Guitar

“Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.”

People White Republican Empty Arguing Appeals Candidates Chairs Elderly

Author:Paul Krugman

“For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.”

World Should Hands White Break Empty Toys

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.”

“For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.”

Waiting White Empty Filled Excitement Sheer Canvas Roller Coaster Coasters Premieres

Author:Pam Brown

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)”

People Mean Said Stills Lasts House President White Pay Attention Half Drink Empty Thirds Glasses Dinner White House President Bush Liquid Half Empty

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.”

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

Hard Sound White Silence Rain Empty Noise Sunday Fifth White Noise

Author:Mark Haddon

“On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.”

Knows Heart Said Dream Faces Realizing Dark White Common Half Needed Empty Victim Corners Expected Ice Occasions Deep Down Numb Burnt Out

Author:Dean Koontz

“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

“And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his enemy's shell.”

Two Body Hands Eye Faces White Enemy Arms Skills Empty Caught Staring Curse Toms Shells Rolling Seekers Mundane Pupils Riddle Scarlet Wands Vacant Finality Slits Unknowing

Author:J. K. Rowling

“She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.”

Lying Suffering Hate White Rooms Calling Mouths Empty Madness Snow Lifts Paris Settlement Wigs Wool Flakes

Author:Anne Sexton

“One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.”

Writing Feelings Light White Doubt One Thing Pages Tasks Empty Absence Novelists Void Blank When In Doubt Blank Pages White Light

Author:Philip Sington

“I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential”

Want Mind Soul White Rooms Empty Letters Your Soul Love Letter

Author:Jeffrey McDaniel

“I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.”

Thinking Way Stills Feelings School Mother Father Space White Empty Stomach Empty Space Nausea

Book:Ham On Rye

Source: Ham On Rye

“All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang and sang But the satyr never stirred- Only the great white moon In the empty heaven heard.”

Heart Night Heaven White Darkness Heard Moon Stones Empty Blue Sunset Fountain Drowsy Satyrs

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul. Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. There is soul music, soul food, and soul love... People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.”

“Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.”

Lasts Heaven White Darkness Pure Bird Empty Destruction Wings Bones Supreme Hinduism Hunters Prey Nests Tents Swans Shiva

Author:Robinson Jeffers

“I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.”

Ifs Left White Walks Rooms Empty Mark Mirrors Clean Boxes Studios Dancer Manhattan Footprint Rehearsing

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

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