Top 1200 Empty Shell Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

I like to walk around my neighborhood, late in the afternoon. I sometimes wind up at the wonderful, old Shell station that's been changed into a coffee shop. Right where Johnny used to change my oil, I have a latte and take out my little book bag. It doesn't sound very austere.

The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

Two kids riding their bikes to an empty lot? It never ends well.

The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.

Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.

When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.

It might seem that this knowledge is cold, devoid of emotion, empty. This is another illusion.

Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.

Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness.

Beneath the ocean surface, bad things are happening. Increasing CO2 makes ocean water more acid, and that threatens to dissolve the shells of some ocean animals. Ouch, how'd you like to have your shell dissolve?

Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard part of them. They still define themselves by their school failures and successes.

If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston.

Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written.

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.

I love Twickenham. It's the best place on earth to go, even when it's empty.

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell of a person trying to find meaning, who is not completely in touch with reality.

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.