Hollow Quotes

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system – we will have something without heart.

In ‘Hollow City,’ I’m taking all the characters out of the lives they’ve been secure in for years and plunging them into the unknown. That’s how you really get to know them.

The ACA purposely constrains choice as a top-down means of cost control. Obamacare isn’t a consumer-driven, high-deductible scheme. It’s hollow coverage.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

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

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven’t even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can’t… not for the longest time.

Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents, has no mail service, and no cell phone reception. However, what it lacks in amenities, it compensates for in sheer natural wonder.

Political rights notwithstanding, ‘freedom’ rings awfully hollow when you’re getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

You don’t need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don’t work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don’t make good on the threats, you’re asking for worse behavior next time.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.

I’ve always thought of beauty therapy, ‘alternative’ treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels – for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I’m laughing.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Quail Hollow is always going to be a special spot for me, and winning there gave me a little more credibility. But I want to be a multiple winner on the PGA Tour.

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

If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don’t know and have never met, it’s like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That’s more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.

I’m obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don’t use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that’s smaller and weighted.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man – the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse – the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Tim Burton’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’ has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I grew up hunting and fishing in Land Between the Lakes. I have so many great memories of camping with my mom over at Redd Hollow.

Trump’s presidency will fail. Just don’t ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man, lacking ballast, whose chaos cannot be contained.

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

We are all busy. It’s easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

With ‘Hollow Circus,’ I used a family story that haunted me as a kid, one of those anecdotes about a family member that would rarely be spoken of in front of the children.

‘Hatful of Hollow’ and ‘The Smiths’ were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel – to have an effect on someone.

If you come on the set of ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ and you go, ‘So, is this a ‘Once Upon a Time’ spinoff?’ That’s right when we start slappin’ people. It’s right then. Now if you came on the set, and you were like, ‘I like this show. It kinda reminds me of ‘Supernatural,” that gets you a high five.

Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder’s liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one’s life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power – far from the demands of business – out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

There’s some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

They say country music stands for more than the rural life. It’s about life, period, whether lived in a high-rise or a hollow. I don’t think rural or urban has that much to do with it.

‘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.

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

Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process – reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.

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.

I had decided after ‘Hollow Man’ to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even ‘Basic Instinct’ is kind of science fiction.

I’m a huge ‘Nightmare before Christmas’ fan, but that was also Henry Selick. I’m a really big fan of ‘Sleepy Hollow.’ I love ‘Big Fish,’ too, which is a bit different. There’s a really cool era of early-Burton stuff like ‘Ed Wood’ that I’m a big fan of.

When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women’s studies, I made my first PBS documentary, ‘Women of Substance.’ My first feature documentary was called ‘American Hollow,’ which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.

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

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

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

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

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

I think ‘Hollow City’ only took a year and a half to write… but it felt like two and a half!

Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.

I’ve buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn’t Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he’s become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys – from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between – which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we’d get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go.