#vacant

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

#discontented #every #every time #hundred #i

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#bringing #eyes #foot #generating #improving

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#each #football #hit #i #into

I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#concrete #could #down #each #fast

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#builds #lots #money #professional #vacant

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. ↗

— Julian Clary

#being #come #personality #quite #rodents

I like black because it is a vacant space. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#black #i #like #space #vacant

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#being #candidates #college #columbia #considered

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#back #drop #head #him #i

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ↗

— William Cowper

#distressed #mind #occupation #quite #rest