Empty Bowl Quotes

#1. The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

Lewis Hyde

#2. When I was a child, I pretended that I had my own cooking show. I would stand at the kitchen counter with an empty bowl and spoon and talk in a silly voice, explaining the concoction I was creating.

Kimberly Schlapman

#3. There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.

Cheryl Strayed

#4. He steps over to me and takes the empty bowl from my hand, setting it on the desk. Grasping my chin, he pulls my face up so I'll look at him. His thumb brushes across my bottom lip, and he's quiet for a minute before whispering, "Only a fool would be bothered by being with you.

J.M. Darhower

#5. Let's use that empty noggin of yours as a punch bowl, so it's at least good for something!! Whadja say?! Ooh, but I love punch!!

Aya Nakahara

#6. A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

Hilary Mantel

#8. She removed my empty plate, replaced it with a bowl containing a steaming slice of spotted dick with thick yellow custard drizzled all over it.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

Laozi

#10. She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?"
"In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

Elizabeth Bear

#11. Roses are wilting, Violets are dead,
The sugar bowl is empty,and so is your head.

WeeKittyAndTAT

#12. How're you feeling?' Ginny asked Ron, who was now staring into the dregs of milk at the bottom of him empty cereal bowl as of seriously considering attempting to drown himself in them.

J.K. Rowling

#13. they leave when it's over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl. If

Catherynne M Valente