Top 100 Quotes About Filling
#2. I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.
Ron Moody
#3. If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled 'How to Build a Chair' instead of a cookbook, you pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling.
Lemony Snicket
#4. God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.
Madeleine L'Engle
#5. I was petrified of what he made me feel. After having no one for so long, the possibility of filling the emptiness was almost unimaginable.
Helena Hunting
#6. I'm into my Black Thing
And it's filling all
My empty spots
Nikki Giovanni
#7. Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.
Laini Taylor
#8. The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether - very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distractions of radio, but for the moment reading remained most people's principal method for filling idle time.
Bill Bryson
#9. Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the Kellogg's Pop-Tarts box that says, Warning: Pastry Filling May Be Hot When Heated.
Tom Vanderbilt
#10. A fleeting moment of bliss filling your existence with ecstasy, only to fade with the dimming light.
No, I could not believe that.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#11. I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.
Bruno Mars
#12. Iss all regulated Simon, everything in this country is. Yow can't scratch yer arse without some cunt filling o form abaht it.
Wes Brown
#13. [T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling it with anything that might put some too-useful dent in its open, airy emptiness.
Rachel Kushner
#14. A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole."
"In the Shape of Shep
Eileen Granfors
#15. If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
Greg Moore
#16. That's where spiritual warfare begins - leaving our own methods of filling our gaping holes at the well and allowing Jesus to fill every thirsty, needy place with His Living Water.
Mary E. DeMuth
#17. My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.
Joan Didion
#18. Fitness and proper nutrition truly go hand-in-hand. Focus on eating clean and filling your plate with veggies, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins. And, everyone hates to do it, but calorie counting is crucial to weight loss as well as maintaining a healthy physique.
Jillian Michaels
#19. Ren's scent was everywhere. The smoke of aged wood lingering beneath a chilled autumn sky, the smooth burn of well-worn leather, the seductive ribbon of sandalwood. I closed my eyes, letting his scent pour over me, filling me with memories.
Andrea Cremer
#20. People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.'
Stephanie Klein
#21. My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
Kate Moss
#22. I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?
Jessica Capshaw
#23. You can renew your mind by filling it with the Word of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Dodger grabbed the tiny coin. "Can read "beer", "gin" and "ale". No sense in filling your head with stuff you don't need, that's what I always say.
Terry Pratchett
#25. It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Caterina Scorsone
#26. All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness ... I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.
Blake Charlton
#27. While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!
Billy Graham
#28. Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.
George Berkeley
#30. The book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it, but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work.
Pope Francis
#31. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.
Anne D. LeClaire
#32. Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.
Anuj
#33. Poe's drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature. Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.
Charles Baudelaire
#34. Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
John Derbyshire
#35. If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
Tavi Gevinson
#36. Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden light expanding beyond your body and filling up the entire room.
Frederick Lenz
#37. What happens when emotion is too big, when it fills the chest and the veins and the limbs? I imagine sunshine filling me until I shatter - leaving starburst-coated girl shrapnel strewn across this bed.
Christina Lauren
#38. And if you wonder how serious I am when I talk about filling your head with positive thoughts: I only watch one type of movies. The ones with happy endings.
Petter A. Stordalen
#39. You can't drink from the cup while you're filling it up.
Laura Hajek
#40. Make sure he's worth it. She had thought it so many times it had become a part of her. Like her tongue filling her mouth, so this tenet filled her being.
Colleen McCarty
#41. These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past; everything else is simply filling in the gaps.
Nathan Filer
#42. I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.
Adele
#43. I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily.
C.S. Lewis
#44. You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.
Rachel E. Carter
#45. I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had a different punishment for me, some of them shocking indeed.
Richard Llewellyn
#46. Write - because you will explode if you don't, your brain will expand with words like a balloon filling with air ...
Sarah Colliver
#47. There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.
George Hickenlooper
#48. The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.
Laura Kasischke
#49. Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man.
James Dashner
#50. I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
Linwood Barclay
#51. I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
Lane Garrison
#52. People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
Louis Zamperini
#53. This morning he had been so heartsick and weary he could scarcely stand, but now his fury was on him, filling him with strength.
George R R Martin
#54. Filling a need that others aren't addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with.
Craig McCaw
#55. I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn't think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn't hold it against them in the long run. We couldn't afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.
Kiera Cass
#56. I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
Ed Harris
#57. If you're about to become a stepmother or are currently filling that role, you are gambling that the love you've found and the strength and wisdom that you've acquired will see you through.
Sue Patton Thoele
#58. Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives
David Niven
#59. Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.
Richard G. Scott
#60. How could filling in a bunch of blanks and writing a fluffy essay about the 'moment of significance' in my life let them know if I was good enough to go here?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#61. My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Graham Greene
#62. You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.
Nickolas Ashford
#63. If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.
Julian Aguon
#64. Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise
sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities
you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,
nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveler.
Margaret Atwood
#65. That street was like a dismal gash, endless, with us at the bottom of it, filling it from side to side, advancing from sorrow to sorrow, toward an end that is never in sight, the end of all the streets in the world.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#66. He's going to try to take Megan! I shouted, fury filling me and spilling out in the form of the manifestation. I raced down the hill toward the crossroad, the pack of snarling, jingling, horned hell poodles streaming behind me.
Dane and his hell-poodles
Katie MacAlister
#67. As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
Mark McKinnon
#68. I sometimes wonder if I'm the person I'm supposed to be," Polly said. He voice was quiet. Almost distant. "Or if I'm just filling the only role left over.
Matthew Dicks
#69. She glanced at the horse's stomach. "You got yourself knocked up, girl?"
"Actually, it takes two to tango, in case you haven't heard."
Sadie laughed, the happy noise filling the air. "Horse tango. Sounds like quite the show.
Cindi Madsen
#70. To improve chances of success, you want to build a project or product where you think you're filling a hole. Part of the trick is showing people things that they either a) haven't seen in a long time or b) things they haven't seen before.
Scott Steinberg
#71. This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.
John Burnside
#72. Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry ...
Natalie
#73. My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.
Diane Setterfield
#74. The Heart is like a fuel tank, that you always have to keep filling up with Imaan
Nouman Ali Khan
#75. Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.
Herb Kohl
#76. For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.
Plutarch
#77. Once I get in my mind that it's going to go "da da da dadada da da," then it's kind of like filling in the blanks.
Bun B.
#78. We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Ray Bradbury
#80. If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
Jane Austen
#82. No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.
George Weinberg
#83. Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff,
J.K. Rowling
#84. All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never-ending cycles all things and phenomena.
Nikola Tesla
#85. Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
Alan Kay
#86. The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
Laozi
#87. The house was heavy around him, the pressure of the past filling the rooms like odorless gas.
Annie Proulx
#88. ...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of loss. Surely it would try to choke her in her sleep, or trip her in the dark when night fell.
Elise K. Ackers
#89. The human mind was expert at filling in missing details and confidently turning them into facts, even if those facts were merely imagined.
Tess Gerritsen
#90. I've learned that life isn't about the end, but about the chapters in between. The filling in that we do to get our stories told and how people react to it is what keeps us going.
Claire Contreras
#91. The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
Robert Collier
#92. That voice. It couldn't be.
She turned.
The Marine.
Her brain tried to compute the man before her. The same uncompromising blue-gray eyes, but more distant. The same fit body, but more space filling. The same rugged features, but more bearded.
Bearded!
Kate Meader
#93. I asked Go to answer my questions, but the only sound was always the whistling of the wind filling the empty space.
Rudolfo Anaya
#94. Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
Dave Barry
#95. Despite her misgivings, she understood that he was somehow filling a void we might have not even known was there.
Sarah Dessen
#96. It was as if his apostasy from the faith of his fathers, filling him with the fiery zeal of the convert, and particularly of the convert to heresy, had blinded him to every other element in the gigantic self-delusion of civilized man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#97. I am filling my life with an abundance of love every day and in every way so that I can give it away.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.
Carol Gilligan
#99. While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#100. Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.
Simon Hoggart
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