Top 1200 Empty Shell Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

Donald Trump participated in something known as the empty box scam. He bought $65,000 worth of jewelry from Bulgari across the street from Trump Tower, and had the record show that it was mailed to him in an out-of-state address. Now, if you're not a New York resident, you may not have to pay sales tax if the jewelry is mailed to you in another state. The problem is, they were empty boxes. It was proven.

Japan is prepared to break the shell of mutual distrust with North Korea and get off to a new start.

A Tamagotchi is a beep encased in a plastic shell. It exists to haunt you with ghostly notifications that signify nothing.

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.

Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

The highest truth is to delete, not to add. To get rid of the things you believe in now. So empty yourself out totally and completely. All of your ideas, your feelings, all have to be emptied out of you. When you become totally and completely empty there is nothing you have to do to fill it up again. Emptiness is realization. Emptiness is Brahman. Emptiness is the Self. Emptiness is your real nature.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

Producers now look at the talent and if they believe that the director has the potential, they are willing to shell out the money irrespective of the gender.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

By Year 11, I was a shell of myself. My mum was a teacher in my school, so she could see that I was dimming my light there in comparison to who I was at home.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.

What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.

There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

...If there's a noise in the woods, and there's nobody around to hear it, is it really a noise?" "Of course it is," she replied calmly. "How did you reach that conclusion?" Beldin demanded. "Because there's no such thing as an empty place, uncle. There are always creatures around --wild animals, mice, insects, birds --and they can all hear." "But what if there weren't? What if the woods are truly empty?" "Why waste your time talking about an impossibility?

Healthy mysticism praises acts of letting go, of being emptied, of getting in touch with the space inside and expanding this until it merges with the space outside. Space meeting space; empty pouring into empty. Births happen from that encounter with emptiness, nothingness. . . . Let us not fight emptiness and nothingness, but allow it to penetrate us even as we penetrate it.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Tough sanctions would mean saying to BP, Exxon, Chevron, Shell, Boeing and Siemens that they can't do business in Russia.

How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way - we don't know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear.

They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

At 14, 15, everyone at school stopped talking to me, and I went completely into my shell. Basically, I'd be hiding. I had no friends. I hated it.

At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.

When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.