Vacant Lots Quotes

#1. There are no vacant lots in nature.

Edward Abbey

#2. Beware of those who would pay you lip service but refuse to put their money where their mouths are.

Faydra D. Fields

#3. Trout said this about all the stories he had torn to pieces and flushed down toilets or tossed into trash-strewn vacant lots, or whatever: 'Easy come, easy go.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. My wife and I are like twins and that is a great and a terrible thing for a marriage. It makes for the most comfortable thing in the world to be truly known and loved, but also makes for a lot of conflict and that's how we roll in my house.

Mark Duplass

#5. You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.

Will Rogers

#6. I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like, Okay, this is seriously the last chance. And also: Do you really want to be a dad who never did what he wanted to do? You've got to set an example now. You've got to do this.

Jonathan Coulton

#7. Then a slow mile later such places started thinning out, in favor of vacant lots and piney woods, and a sense of empty vastness ahead.

Lee Child

#8. I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

Moby

#9. FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London

Ambrose Bierce

#10. I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?

Jessica Biel

#11. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

John Updike

#12. It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.

David Schwimmer

#13. How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.

William Schreyer

#14. I laced my shoes with sorrow
and walked a weary road
dead end streets
don't come undone
with double knots
wing tipped shoes
that walk on air
through vacant lots

Saul Williams

#15. I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.

Barry Sanders

#16. Gods have a way of sprouting from vacant lots.

Robert Dawson

#17. Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

Vladimir Nabokov

#18. It is terrible to be an unprotected being.

Colm Toibin

#19. I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.

Edward Ruscha

#20. The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

Jimmy Breslin

#21. Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#22. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Bob Dylan

#23. The world revolves like ancient women, gathering fuel in vacant lots.

T. S. Eliot

#24. Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Ayn Rand

#25. People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together ... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Monica Furlong