Hollower Quotes & Sayings

This was my mother's chosen disciplinary method: unable to strike us, she ordered us to seal our lips. Some echo, no doubt, of the great silence with which her own mother had tormented Aadam Aziz lingered in her ears - because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound - and with an emphatic "Chup!" she would place a finger across her lips and command our tongues to be still. — Salman Rushdie

For that interview, — Steve Hodel

I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns. — F. R. Scott

The last thing I remember is the look of horror on the faces of the audience. But what had caused me to feel the most humiliation was when I noticed Blake Jansen, the coolest boy in our class, staring down at me in disbelief. — Katrina Kahler

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. — B.B. King

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. — C.S. Lewis

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds ... it confuses the younger demographic. — Kurt Angle

One doesn't need a lot to be able to live. The great thing is to be free in your work. Ofcourse it's important to print or exhibit, but if that's not possible you are still left with the most important thing of all
being able to work without asking anybody's permission. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse. — Lemar

Because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound. — Salman Rushdie

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism. — Sidney Hook

Come Neti, my chief keeper of the gates of Kur, and listen carefully to what I say: Lock up and bolt the seven gates of Kur, then, one by one, open each gate and let Innana enter through the crack. Bring her down. But as she enters, take her regal costume from her, take the crown, the necklace, and the beads that fall across her breast, the golden breastplate on her chest, the bracelet and the rod and line. Strip her of everything, even the royal robe, and let the holy priestess of the earth, the queen of heaven, enter here bowed low. — Hal Duncan

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel. — Ted Nugent