Empty Seat Quotes

#1. She sat at the window of the train, her head thrown back, one leg stretched across to the empty seat before her. The window frame trembled with the speed of the motion, the pane hung over empty darkness, and dots of light slashed across the glass as luminous streaks, once in a while.

Ayn Rand

#2. Each empty seat in the auditorium, is the probability of what you should have done and not done.

Rehan Waris

#3. I'm a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I'm not holding back.

Brandon Stanton

#4. I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?

Ozzy Osbourne

#5. ...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

Winston Graham

#6. Every day
Same train
Empty seat
He sits
We talk
We miss our stop.

Kylie Scott

#7. At the circus, a careless mother may let her child take part in the experiments of a Chinese magician. He puts him in a box. He opens the box; it's empty. He closes it again. He opens it; the child reappears and goes back to his seat. Now it is no longer the same child. Nobody doubts it.

Jean Cocteau

#8. Don't let them get to you. They have no idea what it's like to be you. They have no idea the things you went through. The things you've seen. They can pretend they know. They can dream up the worst-case scenario, but chances are, it doesn't even come close. You are stronger than they are.

Jennifer Rush

#9. I'm so grateful for the marriages that I have had. I wouldn't be who I am today if I hadn't had those.

Cheryl Tiegs

#10. The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

Herbert Croly

#12. The seat is empty.

Sarah Dalton

#13. I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

Wanda Sykes

#14. Though he'd treated me like crap, I fell asleep thinking of how his bottom lip was slightly plumper than the top - perfect for kissing - and how those onyx eyes glittered when he first glanced at me. I knew he wouldn't be there in the morning, but I still hoped that I'd see him again.

Inger Iversen

#15. Three days later on October 29, 1959, the Pontiac registered in the name of Niles Tignor would be discovered, gas tank near-empty, keys on the floorboards beneath the front seat, in a parking lot close by the Greyhound bus station in Rome, New York.

Joyce Carol Oates

#16. The only reason anything's wrong is because someone says it is.

Rose Foster

#17. By 7:28, all the guests had arrived, and there were three empty seats: one for Eve, who had yet to show up, another for John, who would have a seat after he gave his daughter away, and a third that would remain empty, save for the ball of soft white yarn with two silver knitting needles in it.

Debra Anastasia

#18. Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."

Carol Leifer

#19. Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.

James L. Buckley

#20. The greatest understanding of a thing is when you can't reduce it any further

Elizabeth Berg

#21. What can I say at seventy-five? Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.

Agatha Christie

#22. I run my operation like a family business. I sign every check, every receipt, I'm not tough, but I'm strong.

Ivana Trump