Jules Renard
Writer
"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."
Empty Rooms quotes
Empty Rooms
25 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Harper Lee
Novelist
"Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal."
Harper Lee
Novelist
"Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books."
William Kennedy
Novelist
"Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego."
Colin Hay
Musician
"I play in a lot of empty rooms."
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"As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us."
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