Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Battaglia

We have places in the park where all that is left is the posts. Or, just empty holes.

Tomas Transtromer

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor.

Ann Voskamp

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

Brent Weeks

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

Brent Weeks

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

David Sedaris

I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

John Irving

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.

Larry Alexander

The perception is all we are is smokestacks and empty buildings. It's an opportunity to let the world see what's happening here.

Arthur Baer

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

Stephan Pastis

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

Kathryn Stockett

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.

Kevyn Adams

More than anything, when you go to a new team, it's just trying to get a feel for the guys and find your niche on the team. That's what's more important than X's and O's, it's getting comfortable with the city. Things like knowing where the rink is and where the grocery store is.

Barbara Russell

My grandfather was a miner. To augment their income, my grandparents also operated a small grocery store out of their home during the Depression.

Al Jourgensen

I'm a very reluctant frontman. I've seen reviews where they talk about my strong presence on stage, but it's nothing I do. It's like the person in a long grocery line who stands out because he's so agitated. He'll have presence, too.

Joan Williams

You can look in my pantry. It looks like a grocery store. We're prepared for the whole season.

Mike Harding

When I go to the grocery store or when I walk into a convenience (store), when I go get gas, I have to think about it now wherever I go.

Stephen Wright

I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies." So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said "compact cars.

Michael Turner

Just like you shouldn't go grocery shopping when you're hungry.

Carole Bouquet

Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.

Carol P. Christ

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

Carol P. Christ

Theologians frequently assert that God has no body, no gender, no race and no age. Most people state that God is neither male nor female. Yet most people become flustered, upset or even angry when it is suggested that the God they know as Lord and Father might also be God the Mother, or Goddess.

Carol Shields

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

Carol Shields

I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

Carol Moseley Braun

The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents had done the same for them. He said that warriors were different in that they shift their assemblage points enough to realize the tremendous price that has been paid for their lives. This shift gives them the respect and awe that their parents never felt for life in general, or for being alive in particular.

Carlos Castaneda

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

C. S. Lewis

Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.' 'No fear of that,' said Aslan. 'Have you not guessed?' Their hearts leapt, and a wild hope rose within them. 'There was a real railway accident,' said Aslan softly. 'Your father and mother and all of you are- as you used to call it in the Shadowlands- dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

C. S. Lewis

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Diane Setterfield

Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

Cesare Pavese

You dont remember days, you remember moments

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Christian Church

We are here to remember just how special they were to us,

Jason Calacanis

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Brian Martin

We are seeing a lot of selling for euros.

J. J. Johnson

We're seeing a very substantial shift going on in the market.

Timothy Ghriskey

We're seeing a pullback really just from yesterday.

Chris Shipley

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

Bob Schnorbus

We're sort of seeing an orchestrated slowing of the economy. But what we're not seeing is a slamming on the brakes.

Tom Warner

We're going to start seeing a lot more of these.

Ed Stansfield

What we're seeing now is the first signs of stress.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Ben Affleck

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jose Rizal

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Kevin Hall

No evacuees are going to be sent here until the threat of Ophelia has passed.

Maureen O'Hara

One time I was taking a little too long in the toilet and Mr. Zanuck sent for me. And he said, what are you doing that takes so long?

Jeff Jackson

Accessibility has been tough, and it has slowed getting parcels on the shelves for students.

Margaret Atwood

Potential has a shelf life.

Jessie Ware

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

Zora Neale Hurston

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Jane Krakowski

I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.

Oscar Wilde

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Neil Hamilton

Usually we don't have any vacant stores, ... I think the town is a thriving community. The stores can survive.

Karen Burk

We don't have a listing of stores impacted that we can provide. It's going to vary store by store.

Eugene Fram

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

David Pearson

Those stores will be in transition over a four-week period. It takes a lot to get these things done.

J. Hoover

It will be tough but we have two other stores that are non-smoking and things are going well there.

James Henderson

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.