Famous quotes containing the words defining, empty and/or sums:
“Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart.
But the saying is true: The empty vessel makes the greatest
sound.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.”
—Jewish proverb, quoted in Claud Cockburn, Cockburn Sums Up, epigraph (1981)
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