Quotes About Vacant Time

#1. It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to call it by its true name (for now I was living pure time - pure, vacant time) so as not to forget it for a moment, keep it constantly before me, and feel its weight.

Milan Kundera

#2. Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#3. I can't be a mummy, I'm a daddy!

Curly Howard

#4. Nobody was living on the first floor, which had been vacant for some time,

Patricia Blake

#5. I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Rickie Lee Jones

#6. Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Louis XIV

#7. Abby's eyes seemed almost as vacant as those of the girl in the photograph. Then a shiver came over her and she blinked. Gently, almost affectionately, she put the picture back on the wall. She touched it one last time and said, Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.

Madeleine Roux

#8. Elias revved the engine menacingly. I put my hand on the steering wheel. "That's my mom! Don't even think about it." "How about I just back over the ones behind us?" " Or the ones on the sidewalk," one of the guys in the backseat suggested. "Be serious," I said, though they might have been.

Tate Hallaway

#9. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. His vacant eyes took on a more sinister look, taking notice of us for the first time, a stranger in our midst, a monster.

Patricia Hamill

#11. She was going to be lost if she wasn't able to use his skin as a roadmap back to sanity.

Elise Kova

#12. I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, "Children, you must no make so much noise," that I do not think how soon the time may come when, beside the vacant seat, those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#13. Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

#14. In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

Emile M. Cioran

#15. What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.

Ken Kesey