#empty

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#empty #important #kind #landscape #only

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. ↗

— John Cage

#cannot #empty #empty space #fact #hear

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#blair #britain #comfortable #comfortable life #created

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#cannot #compete #dominance #empty #her

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play. ↗

— Anna Friel

#become #board #certain #effect #empty

There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#eating-disorders #feeling-empty #humor #inspirational #psychology

When I’m feeling down, I make myself a big bowl of Up Soup. The bowl only looks empty, but in reality it’s full of hope. Grab a spoon, there’s plenty for both of us. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bowl #depressed #depression #eat #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

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

— Alan Watts

#empty #exceedingly #me #negative #nothing