Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

J. K. Rowling

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Graham Greene

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

Samuel Johnson

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

Stephen Wright

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded

Ron Wilson

We desperately need the space. Our high school, especially, is severely crowded at this point and has been for years. We've known this for a long time.

Jon Fisher

When we get to the waterfall, it could be crowded or empty. We never know.

Edward Abbey

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Paul Goldberger

Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.

John Cooney

Imagine 40 high school kids and adults crowded into the school library,

Nancy Gordon

For me, rhythm, music and movement takes you to a deep place. It's a place not crowded by words or overshadowed by our thinking world.

Jacob Epstein

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Ben Shahn

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.