#empty

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#face #grin #his #out #reaching

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#career #competed #empty #i #lot

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#common people #cowards #dread #empty #laugh

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. ↗

— Alan Watts

#empty #exceedingly #me #negative #nothing

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness… ↗

— 2 Peter 2 18

#food-for-thought #ible #peter #speaking #think-before-you-speak

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit. ↗

— Edmund White

#crying #ecological #empty #even #far

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#full #none #themselves #those #who

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#daily #daily bread #empty #empty stomach #first

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of. ↗

— Fritz Zwicky

#became #brain #consists #convinced #empty

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#around #attached #beautiful #burning #characters