Top 470 Hollow Quotes & Sayings

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

It’s been me all along,” said September slowly. “Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up the Prince. Me who shot the poor Minotaur. You oughtn’t just hand the whole business over the moment a Prince comes on the scene. I’ve got to see it through, don’t you see? The Hollow Queen is hollow because she’s missing the part of her that’s me. We’ve got to come together again. And he can’t do a thing about that.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

The really good thing about 'Sleepy Hollow' is you have no idea who's going to die when... But then equally, we showed in the pilot several people can come back to life, so you have no idea who's going to come back. Death means very little in our Sleepy Hollow, so expect more surprise deaths and more surprise resurrections.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

When it comes to drinking water, there is no room for political posturing or hollow solutions.

Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.

Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.

Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

If I just retweet the nice things, it rings hollow after a while.

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

I don't really have a set-in-stone process or formula. Sometimes the melody is there and I have to chase down the lyrics. Sometimes, the song is there and I have to make the melody fit. What I've learned so far about songwriting is that I can't force a song. If I try to do that, it's hollow, and people know a hollow song when they hear it. It's the song they stop listening to and forget about. I'd prefer not to write those kinds of songs.

The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of light and shadow, and raise a ridge, or sink a hollow, not to represent an actual ridge or hollow, but to get a line of light, or a spot of darkness.

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.

Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.

My father bought a house in Panther Hollow. We were the first Italians in the neighborhood.

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.

'The Tales' are an important part of 'Hollow City,' when the kids discover secrets encoded in them that end up saving their lives. I wrote two tales as part of 'Hollow City,' and spent the next couple of years finishing the trilogy but itching to write more tales.

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my pride and my doubt. Make me hollow enough that you can breathe something through me that would turn eyes to you." And whether that's a song or a conversation you're going to have with a co-worker, or whatever you're facing, that's for everybody.

What's a victory when its hollow?

I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.