Quotes About Empty Benches

#1. I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Donald Trump

#3. There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

Joyce Rachelle

#4. If you don't love it, don't eat it, and if you love it, savor it.

Evelyn Tribole

#5. I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.

Eric Brown

#6. We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Alfred North Whitehead

#7. Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Edward Abbey

#8. Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

James Salter