I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
My wife was an excellent mother, her loss has left a big void in my son’s life, and those are shoes that I cannot fill. The loss of a parent has not been easy on him.
I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it’s like a template; I’ll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I’m all right.
I got married when I was 24 and met my husband when I was 22, so what I know about men in a personal experience could literally fill an index card.
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn’t really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn’t existed before.
I can only have four to five ounces of food in my stomach. When you only have that much space in there, you don’t want to fill it up with crap.
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.
Limit or eliminate late-night computer and television viewing. A computer or TV screen may seem much dimmer than a light bulb, but these screens often fill your field of vision, mimicking the effects of a room filled with light.
I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.
There’s an age group that’s just not being entertained – the boomers. There’s a void out there. It’s nice to be one of those who can fill that void.
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I’d fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
I’ll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I’ll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I’m really just going a couple bars at a time.
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
I used to fill my stomach with water because I didn’t have money to pay for food.
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don’t write to fill up the album with my songs.
What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.
I believe I fill in every box on both ends of the floor.
The scariest stunt I’ve ever done was on ‘Captain America.’ We were doing some underwater sequence. I was in a submarine, and Chris Evans had to break the glass, and the water had to fill up quickly in the submarine.
I don’t remember everything about my life, but I’m very fortunate to have a group of friends I can rely on – they fill in the blanks.
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
It’s not hard to assume that voters do not have deeply considered views on each and every policy issue before them but instead, perhaps, have one or two strongly held views and then allow their favored political leaders to fill in the gaps on the rest of the issues.
I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don’t have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.
It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.
If the U.S. fails to set the rules for global trade, then other countries with records of environmental and labor abuses, like China, will step in to fill the void.
My everyday look is casual, and I try not to wear makeup if I don’t have to. I’ll cover a zit with a little concealer, but I don’t wear foundation on a daily basis. I maybe fill in my eyebrows.
That’s what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I’ve had my fill.
Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there’s an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
I’m Italian and the privilege of working in my home country would fill me with pride. However, the opportunity to work in a variety of countries, learning new cultures and footballing mentalities, is also very valuable.
The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.
To fill the shoes of rock ‘n’ roll, because of the family I have, is a really hard thing.
All of a sudden I discovered that I’m allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
It’s not enough for one country or even a few countries to reduce emissions when other countries continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon pollution as they see fit.
I’m not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I’m alone, but I love being around other people.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He’s seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration.
I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don’t think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.
To just slow yourself down, just to not do anything and drive around – I’m not like that. I’m not here to fill up the field.
Even if the two parents have decided they can’t stand the sight of each other anymore, they can still back each other up, cover for each other, and fill in the blanks for each other when it comes to their cocreated children, so that neither of them has to feel as if they’re having to do it all.
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
As more and more minority groups fill our nation’s classrooms, what can we do to even the separate-but-forever-unequal playing field? Now that’s a question many very smart people have spent decades trying to answer.
Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.
It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound… it’s like musical landfill.
Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful.
By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It’s important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
Though easy to define, it is important to understand the significance of philanthropy. I believe it is really a state of mind: where one feels empowered and equipped to fill the huge gaps in the existing system.
I’ve cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.
Having your house fill up with the people you love is comforting.
I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows – I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren’t done; I’m just very uncomfortable with myself.
Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don’t take lightly. I know I’ve got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.
