Quotes about Filling

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots. Votes: 4

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. Votes: 4

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Votes: 4

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. Votes: 4

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. Votes: 4

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. Votes: 4

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. Votes: 4

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world. Votes: 4

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take. Votes: 4

Filling life exceedingly is called ominous. Votes: 3

Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health. Votes: 3

Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor. Votes: 3

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time. Votes: 3

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me. Votes: 3

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright. Votes: 3

Filling a theatre like the Olympia or Vicar Street on your own name is a very rewarding moment. Votes: 3

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have. Votes: 3

Filling a need that others aren't addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with. Votes: 3

Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need. Votes: 3

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity. Votes: 3

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling space. The 8080 can usually execute a bunch of NOP instructions without anything bad happening Votes: 3

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. Votes: 2

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records. Votes: 2

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty. Votes: 2

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary Votes: 2

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge. Votes: 2

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. Votes: 2

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up. Votes: 2

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived. Votes: 2

Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, youd decide you wouldnt want it. Votes: 2

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body. Votes: 2

Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all. Votes: 2

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something. Votes: 2

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. Votes: 2

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. Votes: 2

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? Votes: 2

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. Votes: 2

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. Votes: 2

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours. Votes: 2

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out. Votes: 2

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. Votes: 2

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies. Votes: 2

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them. Votes: 2

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. Votes: 2

The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork. Votes: 2

Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes. Votes: 2

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.' Votes: 2

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes. Votes: 2

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon. Votes: 2

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. Votes: 2

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided. Votes: 2

Education is not filling Votes: 0

Science is about filling in the details. Votes: 0

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations. Votes: 0

Well Ibrox is filling up slowly, but rapidly Votes: 0

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies. Votes: 0

I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything. Votes: 0

There are four different cars filling the first four places. Votes: 0

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved. Votes: 0

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay Votes: 0

Emptiness comes from filling yourself up with what's meant for others Votes: 0

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms. Votes: 0

Gaining trust is like filling a bucket one drop at a time. Votes: 0

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire. Votes: 0

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you. Votes: 0

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire. Votes: 0

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff. Votes: 0

You have given me Your love, filling the world with Your gifts. Votes: 0

A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep Votes: 0

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space. Votes: 0

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? Votes: 0

You can renew your mind by filling it with the Word of God. Votes: 0

I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me. Votes: 0

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Votes: 0

Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves. Votes: 0

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. Votes: 0

No one should ever have to choose between paying the rent and filling their prescriptions. Votes: 0

The trees like lungs filling with air My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair Votes: 0

If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it. Votes: 0

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God. Votes: 0

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application. Votes: 0

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours. Votes: 0

And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it. Votes: 0

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space. Votes: 0

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts. Votes: 0

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room. Votes: 0

Thoughts are like a train, they'll take us somewhere. Protect by filling with the word of God. Votes: 0

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. Votes: 0

The Heart is like a fuel tank, that you always have to keep filling up with Imaan Votes: 0

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form Votes: 0

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears. Votes: 0

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner. Votes: 0

It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything. Votes: 0

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space. Votes: 0

May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration. Votes: 0

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts." Votes: 0

storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads. Votes: 0

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts. Votes: 0

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. Votes: 0

Its easier to get a divorce than pass the driving test. Now its just a basic form-filling exercise. Votes: 0

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity Votes: 0

Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart. Votes: 0

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination. Votes: 0

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination Votes: 0

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. Votes: 0

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.... Votes: 0

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though. Votes: 0

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously? Votes: 0

The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing. Votes: 0

Try a recipe that uses leafy vegetables like kale, or switch to filling, high fiber grains like whole-wheat pasta. Votes: 0

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief. Votes: 0

Set boundaries and keep them. People will drown you with their need, and demonize you for not filling their emptiness. Votes: 0

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable? Votes: 0

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon. Votes: 0

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. Votes: 0

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books. Votes: 0

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy. Votes: 0

-a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow. Votes: 0

As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies. Votes: 0

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in. Votes: 0

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience. Votes: 0

His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream. Votes: 0

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones. Votes: 0

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. Votes: 0

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. Votes: 0

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there. Votes: 0

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food. Votes: 0

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud. Votes: 0

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. Votes: 0

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum. Votes: 0

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else. Votes: 0

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it. Votes: 0

When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet. Votes: 0

She knew she could not be Jem for Will. No one could. But slowly the hollow places in his heart were filling in. Votes: 0

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes. Votes: 0

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole. Votes: 0

If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot. Votes: 0

The Bush administration did stop filling the reserve in 2002 when it helped the oil industry. Now they should do it to help the consumer. Votes: 0

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there? Votes: 0

Had a filling done yesterday with no freezing, natural materials, essentials oils, and homeopathic remedies. We absolutely must push for more holistic biological dentistry ... Votes: 0

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed. Votes: 0

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Votes: 0

The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent. Votes: 0

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work. Votes: 0

If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box. Votes: 0

In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our nature; it respects it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness. Votes: 0

So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that. Votes: 0

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind. Votes: 0

Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness. Votes: 0

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In truth, we're all just pottering, filling the time that we have here, only we like to make ourselves feel bigger by compiling lists of importance. Votes: 0

Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated. Votes: 0

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real. Votes: 0

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you. Votes: 0

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted. Votes: 0

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love. Votes: 0

I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, and filling your head with filth. Votes: 0

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath. Votes: 0

The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts. Votes: 0

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need. Votes: 0

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space. Votes: 0

Cranberries contain a massive amount of natural pectins. They will gel all on their own, which is why you can basically make cranberry sauce out of filling. Votes: 0

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time. Votes: 0

The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart. Votes: 0

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. Votes: 0

It is really not what we have in our hand that gets the job done, but it is God's power filling what we have in our hand. Votes: 0

Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables Votes: 0

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen. Votes: 0

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. Votes: 0

Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. Votes: 0

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone. Votes: 0

When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil a sense of self-confidence among the poor. Votes: 0

[General James Mattis] said, reading allows you to learn from other people's mistakes without filling body bags with the bodies of your soldiers as you learn on the battlefield. Votes: 0

For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help. Votes: 0

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place. Votes: 0

I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past. Votes: 0

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms. Votes: 0

People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos. Votes: 0

It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came. Votes: 0

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared. Votes: 0

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones. Votes: 0

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them. Votes: 0

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life. Votes: 0

Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ... Votes: 0

The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered. Votes: 0

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives. Votes: 0

Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things. Votes: 0

We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves. Votes: 0

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters! Votes: 0

Concrete is momentarily unformed matter seeking its natural completion, filling in the last corners of its allowed space, finding a form. It is possibility rendered material, hope in an industrial-strength mixer. Votes: 0

Learning the history, we were filling in the blanks in ourselves. This had been a major event in a place where we'd grown up thinking that nothing significant had ever happened. Votes: 0

Everything fits, especially me with him, and him with me. He is the puzzle piece that slides into place in my heart, filling all the sad and empty spots inside me. Votes: 0

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

On a train, why do I always end up sitting next to the woman who's eating the individual fruit pie by sucking the filling out through the hole in the middle? Votes: 0

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know. Votes: 0

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts. Votes: 0

Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements. Votes: 0

A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas . . . and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy. Votes: 0

This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity. Votes: 0

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God. Votes: 0

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again. Votes: 0

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest. Votes: 0

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. Votes: 0

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things. Votes: 0

An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy. Votes: 0

When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes. Votes: 0

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy. Votes: 0

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers. Votes: 0

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss. Votes: 0

A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book. Votes: 0

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it. Votes: 0

Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful. Votes: 0

I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job? Votes: 0

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties. Votes: 0

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time. Votes: 0

..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go. Votes: 0

There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle. Votes: 0

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder. Votes: 0

As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie. Votes: 0

We're filling a big universe [in Doctor Strange], and so the look and the sort of plasticity of us is really important to us when we're striking poses here. It's very important, it's really great. Votes: 0

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him. Votes: 0

As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing ful-filling about pornography, it pales in insignificance to a fully embodied loving woman. Votes: 0

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. Votes: 0