Empty

Famous quotes containing the word empty:

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 6:7.

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“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)