| "I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. empty what's full. And scratch where it itches." »Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
| "I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'." »William Shakespeare |
| "Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are." »Rush Hour |
| "The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a mother held briefly in her arms-he leaves an empty place in a parent's heart that will never heal." »Thomas H. Kean |
| "I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week." »Mario M Cuomo |
| "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much." »John Wayne |
| "It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly." »Smiley Blanton |
| "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." »Moshe Dayan |
| "Wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something." »Saul Bellow |
| "If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring." »Marya Mannes |
| "The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode" »Andrew Schneider |
| "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." »Demosthenes |
| "An empty stomach is not a good political advisor." »Albert Einstein |
| "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
| "It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart." »Sophocles |
| "Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong |
| "Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage." »Babylonian Talmud |
| "The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world." »David Dean Rusk |
| "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie." »Walker Best |
| "What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed" »Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| "I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust." »Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin |
| "Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep." »Albert Camus |
| "Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen." »Peggy Noonan |
| "Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God." »John Bunyan |
| "A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." »B. A. Billingsly |
| "Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space." »Diana Black |
| "Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)" »Ronald Reagan |
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