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Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

When I was a little kid, I can remember that they used to let the kids come in for free. The whole upper deck was always empty and you could hear the ball echo in there.

Ultimately, intimacy is more fulfilling than accomplishments. High achievers have an empty spiritual life. I think God made us so that our greatest joy is found in relationship.

With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

The objective is not so much to walk your dog, as it is to empty him.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

Everything will be done by people till they are able.But there will be a time when they cannot do what they want to do,there will be a time they don't receive what they want etc.It is the ending age of our lives,that is the time people distinguish good and bad exactly.What I believe is,I need not to keep the empty places in my life where I would repent some day reminiscing the events during the life...

Early in the game, they'd get one or two on and (Henson) would empty the bases, basically. That was the story of the game. They scored six, and the middle of the order did it twice.

Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?

What I was writing was not a planned thing, it was organic, with the characters working out their own destiny. Sitting there in the grey old empty bungalow, I felt like a man driving a coach and four, roughly knowing the direction in which the coach would travel, but being pulled along by forces only just under his control.

What? Ridden on a horse?''Yes''You're using coconuts!''What?''You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together!''So?

This tent is here to help us sell empty rooms, and bring in groups we would otherwise lose to the competition. We're very pleased. We think the conditions made the tent more easily supported by the local community.

Even if you're in an empty gym, it's hard to make the 13 shots he did.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

Everything around the Games is not as positive if there are empty seats in the building.

It wouldn't be good to have an empty building, would it?

It would have been nice to get an empty net goal. We had a little scare when they came back in the second. But it was a good test for us, a test of character. It showed the confidence we have in each other now to come back.

We're talking about an entire huge city and several smaller surrounding cities that will be empty for some time. It looks like we are going to have sustained prices for at least some weeks and maybe even months, and if that happens, I think that will have a pretty severe impact on the economy.

The speed of changes in values in Chile is much slower than in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil or Mexico. We are changing, but we are still lagging behind in leaving the traditional society for one that is more modern and open. So in the end it is a question of seeing the glass as half empty or half full.

With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.

With sound there's a certain amount of space. It's very easy to fill that sound with noises and sounds, but it's very difficult to keep it empty and still have exciting songs.

We were surprised that Sikorsky was a no-show after the company's non- stop rhetoric about wanting to negotiate. The empty chairs show Sikorsky's true motive -- to try to break the resolve of striking Teamsters. And that's a lost cause because Teamsters don't back down.

When you have that many empty seats, there's no urgency to buy. You're dependent on team performance, which as much as we think we can control that, it's not always the case.

When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.

We've only had two months to get this all together. A lot of people were leery of how it would come off. But I think it's great. These fans are going to go home and tell everyone what a great time they had and there probably won't be an empty seat in the house next week.

And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass / Among the Guests Star-scattered on the Grass, / And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot / Where I made one - turn down an empty Glass!

It would be exciting, in a sad way. We've been living with an empty feeling for so long. It would be nice to finally resolve this.

THE river of human life meanders along, through many a valley, leaps over many a cliff, loses itself in many a marsh and seeks to empty itself in the ocean of Divine Grace; though, what happens is that it falls into the undrinkable expanse of salt.

You flow for me almost too violently, fountain of pleasure. And often you empty the cup again by wanting to fill it.

What Tucson has is demographics and geographies. We're next door to California. The commercial markets sometimes mirror the residential markets when you talk about affordability. There's a little bit of risk, but every buyer has a little bit of different risk tolerance. If you have the ability to hold an empty building for a little while, you're going to be fine.

There is always a sacred hour in the theatre - after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o'clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour.

Tonight we're going to empty that Hess station again.

We created a panic situation by reading too much into the empty threats, and when these threats started moving prices higher in anticipation, then the U.S. put its foot down and said even if Iraq stops world export, we are prepared to take all the necessary measures to make sure there is plenty of supply.

Brown sugar is not any better than white sugar. People should still reduce their intake of all sugars because they're basically empty calories.

a cruel hoax because none of this money is being made available now. ... Faced with this most deadly global threat, Bush continues to stall and its empty promises are costing thousands of African lives every day.

I wanted to bring in another point guard, just in case Andre would get called up. I didn't want to be left empty handed.

Failure to act now... will leave us empty handed when a pandemic strikes and will cause needless deaths,

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.

With our location on the Illinois River, we can capture barge service moving southbound toward New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We also have customers that move gas north to Chicago, and they take advantage of empty barges on the backhaul to move product back to their facilities.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is an empty threat. The problem for Philips is they are in such commodity businesses at the moment and production costs are much lower in Asia.

But I was empty inside. I was spiritually at rock-bottom.

But nowadays my heart is empty and the boxwood has lost its magic scent; yes, absolutely and entirely. The creature that I was no longer exists. When I speak to her she does not understand me; I think of her, already, as of some one I have known but who no longer has any connection with myself.

Now is the time for Wal-Mart to seize the moment for true change. The American people are tired of publicity stunts, half-truths and empty words that have become synonymous with corporate America.

As parents, you expect your children to outlive you and when that doesn't happen, you become an empty shell. Jimmy was a beautiful boy and his time on this earth was all too brief. It kind of puts losing my World Cup winner's medal to Geoff into perspective, doesn't it? But you don't go through life without having some really bad times, and I've had some great times, too.

Baby boomers are turning to pets because it fills the empty house, as kids have gone off to college. Young professionals who aren't starting families right away are still looking for some kind of companionship.

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

They touched down very gently. They were very close to empty (on fuel). They had to land today. There was no question of going another night It was a very tight window.

They've been getting the bounces. Part of playoff hockey, part of the series, there'll be times when you go through droughts. Myself, there's been times when I have an empty net and I've been hitting the goalie in the (butt) or missing the net. Those bounces are going to come to us sooner or later.

They tie ribbons on their shoes. We keep an empty spot when we line our bags for David Martin.

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.

Empty buildings are not always good in terms of public perception, but again Wegmans has been a good citizen, Wegmans has made a lot of investments in this community and I am sure that we will be able to work with them,

Empty heads are very fond of long titles

Florida has seen empty promises on education before.

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute

There's no other way to diplomatically frame it - there's an empty chair there.

We have several empty stores, and I think there are several others that aren't doing well.

There are going to be (food) pantries empty and we're going to have to refill those pantries.

We are so used to making empty promises on a daily basis, ... Here's a guy who makes a promise to a kid and risks his own life to keep that word. So I think people think, 'Oh, I wish I could be that good.'

There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel

This could be a defining moment for his presidency, or it could be empty rhetoric.

This could truly be a defining moment for his presidency or, depending on what he does, empty promises.

This is a fantastic use of a building that has stood empty for over four years. This facility will make a real difference to many lives.

They were flying a lot of empty planes. They don't want that to happen again.

A deserted homestead is always a sad sight, but here in the South we must look a little deeper than the surface, and then we see that every such overgrown plantation, and empty house, is a harbinger of freedom to the slaves, and every lover of his country, even if he have no feeling for the slaves themselves, should rejoice.

YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

You must empty a box before you fill it again

You read these articles about rows and rows and rows of empty buildings. I haven't seen them, and I live here. There's some exaggeration.

Young parents are working and busy raising their kids. Frankly, I'd like to see us focus more on the empty nesters and the baby boomers (in their 50s and early 60s).

You're naming the price you want to pay, and let us find an airline with empty seats where they'll release a seat at that price.

This is a rather unusual situation. There are strong regulations about how large the crew must be on a flight. We didn't want to break the rules so we sent this plane empty to Oslo today.

This is a ridiculous decision! The soul of Bing Dian has been extinguished. Only a shell is left. If the staff decides to protest, no one will do the job. It will be an empty paper on March 1.

This is social injustice of the highest magnitude. They're trying to empty the place out.

In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.

In 1981 Ulrich was done renovating but at that moment his wife left him and 'occupied' an empty flat.

I left the ball in your court, but now I feel like I am standing in an empty gym.

in-house reviewing our processes, comparing the donor records relating to the affected bags, reviewing records on our storage of the empty bags, full bags, you name it.

I know some of what the family is going through. There's always going to be an empty place at the table.

I knew if I got there that he would get me that puck. When I saw him cut to the middle, I had to try to catch up to him. He made just a perfect pass and I had the empty net to shoot at.

I'm just kicking myself about those two. When it's an empty net, I've got to put it in.

I?m just not very pleased. Yeah, we won 55-15, but they gave up a lot of forfeits. We were lackadaisical and empty and we can?t wrestle like that to win.

I like seeing established artists alongside novices, and how empty space transforms into a collage. It's not a stuffy thing. ...People are moving and making it all happen.

I have no income coming in, my bank account is nearly empty and I can't access the money that I have. My credit cards are maxed out and I need help. I hate to do this, but I don't have a choice.

Instead of providing new ideas or honest answers to the economic downturn we are facing, Bush and Cheney offered empty rhetoric and blamed others for the recession.

In some cases we find empty CD and DVD cases on the shelves in which people have stolen the contents.

In this case it was a no-brainer. We had empty seats (so I said), 'Let's do it,'

If we wanted to create a bigger impact than we did on April 10, it will be the empty parking lots in Wal-Mart and all the businesses dependent on our economy.

None of that makes any difference if there's not a story to put on those things. They're just empty screens.

I hope they find (whoever is responsible) in the next 24 hours, so I can get rid of them. I'd rather have an empty apartment than a bad tenant.

I'm not feeling too good, I feel a little empty right now. I don't know what the hell happened.

I'm not going to build it. It may hurt (the city's chances). On the other side, I remember Tampa Bay had an empty stadium for five years. This town grows too fast to have anything empty for one minute.

The basic problems of an empty pipeline and a difficult partner search remain.

The airline model -- where seats get more expensive closer to the departure date -- is in reverse for hotels, because they do not want to be left with empty rooms,

Everybody saw when we were playing well, as we did the last three weeks of the season, we were a good team. We definitely had the team to play in the playoffs. It's an empty feeling that we won't be there.

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.

Any time you're in a holiday situation, you never know what you are going to get from either team, and we were playing in a beautiful but empty arena and it just kind of felt weird all night. But I told them they were doing a nice job of getting the job done, and that's what we're going to take from this.

It's nice to set up guys and give them empty nets and stuff, but these D are good. I have to make sure that I use shooting as an option more.

Absolutely. In our league, when you go to a game, you see five receivers on the field, a lot of four, three receivers. You see empty (backfield) in every situation. So if you don't have at least three really good (corners), it'll be long Sundays.

Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.

DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.