Top 164 Vacant Quotes & Sayings

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.

It is absurd to suggest a president whose party controls the Senate should jointly decline to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat - ever.

We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a medium to question universal truths.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

There are no vacant lots in nature.

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

When I grew up, we played in vacant lots.

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

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

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

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

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

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

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church.

In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.

I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily.

Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.

And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.